Executive Office appointments by Donald Trump

This article is about executive branch appointments. For judicial appointments, see List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump.

Main article: Political appointments by Donald Trump

The core White House staff appointments, and most Executive Office of the President officials generally, are not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a handful of exceptions (e.g., the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the United States trade representative). There are about 4,000 positions in the Executive Office of the President.

Color key

  Denotes appointees serving in offices that did not require Senate confirmation.

  Denotes appointees confirmed by the Senate.

  Denotes appointees awaiting Senate confirmation.

  Denotes appointees serving in an acting capacity.

  Denotes appointees who have left office or offices which have been disbanded.

  Denotes nominees who were withdrawn prior to being confirmed or assuming office.

Appointments

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White House Office

Main article: White House Office

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
White House Chief of Staff	Mark Meadows	March 31, 2020	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations)	Tony Ornato	December 7, 2019	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy Coordination)	Chris Liddell	March 19, 2018	January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Policy Coordinator	Nick Butterfield	TBA	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Communications)	Dan Scavino	April 21, 2020	January 20, 2021
White House Director of Social Media		January 22, 2017	January 20, 2021
Counselor to the President	Hope Hicks	March 9, 2020	January 12, 2021
Chief of Staff to the Senior Counselor	Hope Renee Hudson	TBA	January 20, 2021
Senior Advisor to the President	Ivanka Trump	March 29, 2017	January 20, 2021
	Jared Kushner	January 22, 2017	January 20, 2021
Director of the Office of American Innovation		March 27, 2017	January 20, 2021
Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations	Avi Berkowitz	November 1, 2019	January 20, 2021
Senior Advisor to the President (Policy)	Stephen Miller	January 20, 2017	January 20, 2021
White House Director of Speechwriting		January 22, 2017	January 20, 2021
White House Principal Deputy Chief of Staff	John Fleming	March 30, 2020	January 20, 2021
Director of the Domestic Policy Council	Brooke Rollins	May 24, 2020	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council	Jennifer B. Lichter	May 24, 2020	January 20, 2021
Director of the National Economic Council	Larry Kudlow	April 2, 2018	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council	Everett Eissenstat	June 2017	July 2018
National Security Council
Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council	Andrew Olmem	June 2018	January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the President (Economic Policy)
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council	Cletus R. Willems III	July 2018	January 20, 2021
Chief Economist of the National Economic Council	Joseph Lavorgna		January 20, 2021
White House Cabinet Secretary	Kristan King Nevins	September 24, 2019	January 20, 2021
Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Matthew J. Flynn		January 20, 2021
Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Organizational Structure	Kirk R. Marshall		January 20, 2021
White House Communications Director	Vacant
Deputy Director of Communications	Julie Hahn		January 20, 2021
White House Director of Strategic Communications	Alyssa Farah	April 7, 2020	December 4, 2020
Senior Advisor for Communications	Ben Williamson		January 20, 2021
White House Press Secretary	Kayleigh McEnany	April 7, 2020	January 20, 2021
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary	Brian R. Morgenstern	July 20, 2020	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Press Secretary	Judd Deere	January 31, 2019	January 20, 2021
White House Chief Digital Officer	Ory Rinat	February 6, 2017	June 20, 2020
White House Deputy Chief Digital Officer	Katlyn L. Parnitzke	TBA	January 20, 2021
Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Stephanie Grisham	April 7, 2020	January 6, 2021
Press Secretary to the First Lady		April 7, 2020	January 6, 2021
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for the First Lady	Emma Doyle	January 3, 2019	April 21, 2020
Director of Policy for the Office of the First Lady	Arthur Harding	TBA	January 20, 2021
White House Social Secretary	Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd	February 22, 2017 (Appointed by the First Lady)	January 6, 2021
Director of White House Information Technology	Roger L. Stone	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of White House Information Technology	David Lambrecht	TBA	January 20, 2021
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Douglas Hoelscher	June 2018	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	William F. Crozer	TBA	January 20, 2021
Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Zachery Tate Michael	TBA	January 20, 2021
White House Director of Legislative Affairs	Amy Swonger	June 5, 2020	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs (House Liaison)	Joyce Meyer	February 13, 2017	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs (Senate Liaison)	Christopher Cox		January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs	Benjamin R. Howard	TBA	January 20, 2021
Director of the Office of Administration	Monica J. Block	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the Office of Administration	Monica Block	TBA	January 20, 2021
Chief Financial Officer in the Office of Administration	Heather D. Martin	June 2019	January 20, 2021
National Security Advisor	Robert O'Brien	September 18, 2019	January 20, 2021
Deputy National Security Advisor	Matthew Pottinger	September 22, 2019	January 7, 2021
Assistant to the President
Homeland Security Advisor	Julia Nesheiwat	February 21, 2020	January 20, 2021
Executive Secretary of the National Security Council	Matthias Mitman	October 2019	January 20, 2021
Legal Advisor to the National Security Council	John Eisenberg	January 20, 2017	January 20, 2021
White House Director of Political Affairs	Brian Jack	February 2, 2019	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Director of Political Affairs for Outreach	Alexander R. Willette	TBA	January 20, 2021
Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office	John McEntee	January 8, 2019	January 20, 2021
Director of Operations of the Office of Presidential Personnel	James Bacon	TBA	January 20, 2021
Director of the Office of Public Liaison	Timothy Pataki	February 2, 2019
Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison	James Goyer	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison	Jennifer S. Korn	TBA	January 20, 2021
Director of Scheduling and Advance	Robert Peede Jr.	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Advance	Matthew Palmisano	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling	Vacant	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the Office of American Innovation	Ja'Ron K. Smith	TBA	January 20, 2021
White House Staff Secretary	Derek Lyons	June 6, 2018	January 20, 2021
White House Deputy Staff Secretary	Catherine Bellah Keller	June 9, 2018	January 20, 2021
Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy	Peter Navarro	April 29, 2017	January 20, 2021
Special Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy	Alexander Gray	January 20, 2017	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy	Catherine A. Cole	TBA	January 20, 2021
White House Counsel	Pat Cipollone	December 10, 2018	January 20, 2021
Deputy Counsel to the President	Patrick F. Philbin	TBA	January 20, 2021
	Michael M. Purpura		January 20, 2021
	Kathryn C. Todd		January 20, 2021
Chief of Staff to the White House Counsel	Ann M. Donaldson	TBA	January 20, 2021
Director of Oval Office Operations	Nicholas F. Luna	TBA	January 20, 2021
Executive Assistant to the President	Molly A. Michael	TBA	January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the President for Operations and Personal Aide to the President	Nicholas F. Luna	February 2, 2019. Previously Special Assistant to the President for Operations and Advance.	January 20, 2021
Oval Office Operations Coordinator	Molly A. Michael	TBA	January 20, 2021
Member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships	Mike Duncan	May 2017	January 20, 2021
	Aldona Wos		January 20, 2021
	Lee H. Bienstock		January 20, 2021
	Somers White Farkas		January 20, 2021
	Marlyn McGrath		January 20, 2021
	Damond R. Watkins		January 20, 2021
	Ronald J. Zlatoper		January 20, 2021
	Richard Bagger		January 20, 2021
	Kenneth R. Nahigian	June 2017	January 20, 2021
	Richard F. Hohlt		January 20, 2021
	Paris Dennard	December 2017	January 20, 2021
	Linda M. Springer		January 20, 2021
	Robert J. Smullen		January 20, 2021
	Daniel Caine		January 20, 2021
	Lisa Nelson	April 2018	January 20, 2021
	Philip Montante		January 20, 2021
	Justin Sayfie		January 20, 2021
	Ryan E. Mackenzie	October 2019	January 20, 2021
	John DeStefano		January 20, 2021
	Barrett Karr		January 20, 2021
	David Bohigian	December 2019	January 20, 2021
	Justin Reilly Clark	February 2020	January 20, 2021
	Joshua Pitcock		January 20, 2021
	Reinhold Priebus		January 20, 2021
	Sean Michael Spicer
Deputy Assistant to the President	Keith Davids	September 6, 2018
Director of the White House Military Office
Physician to the President	Sean Conley	May 4, 2018	January 20, 2021
Chief Official White House Photographer	Shealah Craighead	January 22, 2017	January 20, 2021
White House Chief Usher	Timothy Harleth	June 23, 2017	January 20, 2021

Council of Economic Advisers

Main article: Council of Economic Advisers

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers	Tyler Goodspeed	June 24, 2020	January 7, 2021
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers	Vacant

Council on Environmental Quality

Main article: Council on Environmental Quality

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality	Mary Neumayr	January 10, 2019 (Confirmed January 2, 2019, voice vote)	January 20, 2021
Member of the Council on Environmental Quality	Vacant
	Vacant

President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Main article: President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board	Steve Feinberg	May 12, 2018
Vice Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board	Samantha F. Ravich	August 2018
Member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board	Saxby Chambliss	November 2018
	Jeremy Katz
	Jim Donovan
	Kevin E. Hulbert
	David Robertson
	Clifford Sobel	January 2019
	J. Tucker Bailey	March 2019

Office of Management and Budget

Main article: Office of Management and Budget

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Russell Vought	January 2, 2019	July 22, 2020
		January 2, 2019 (Confirmed July 20, 2020, 51–45)	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Derek Kan	July 30, 2020 (Confirmed July 30, 2020, 71–21)	December 2020
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (Management)	Margaret Weichert	February 28, 2018 (Confirmed February 14, 2018, voice vote)	March 25, 2020
Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government	Vacant
General Counsel for the Office of Management and Budget	Mark Paoletta	January 2018	January 20, 2021
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator	Vishal Amin	August 3, 2017 (Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote)
Controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management	David Mader
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs	Paul J. Ray	January 2020 (Confirmed January 9, 2020, 50–44)
Office of Federal Procurement Policy
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy	Michael E. Wooten	TBD (Confirmed August 1, 2019, voice vote)

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Main article: Office of National Drug Control Policy

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	James W. Carroll	February 9, 2018	January 30, 2019
		January 31, 2019 (Confirmed January 2, 2019, voice vote)	January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	Kendel Ehrlich	August 2019	February 2020

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Main article: Office of Science and Technology Policy

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy	Kelvin Droegemeier	February 11, 2019 (Confirmed January 2, 2019, voice vote)	January 15, 2021
Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy	Michael Kratsios	August 2, 2019 (Confirmed August 1, 2019, voice vote)	January 20, 2021
	Vacant
	Vacant
	Vacant

Office of the United States Trade Representative

Main article: Office of the United States Trade Representative

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Trade Representative	Robert Lighthizer	May 15, 2017 (Confirmed May 15, 2017, 82–14)	January 20, 2021
Deputy Trade Representative	Vacant
	C.J. Mahoney	March 13, 2018 (Confirmed March 1, 2018, voice vote)	2020
	Michael Nemelka	September 8, 2020
	Dennis Shea	March 12, 2018 (Confirmed March 1, 2018, voice vote)
Chief Agricultural Negotiator	Gregg Doud
General Counsel	Stephen Vaughn	March 2017
Member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations	Dan DiMicco	December 4, 2017
	Vincent Duvall
	Leslie B. Daniels
	Donald N. Bockoven Jr.	September 2018
	Donald Smith
	Lee Styslinger III
	Kenneth R. Weinstein
	Charles Rivkin
	Victoria Espinel
	Robert T. DeMartini
	C. Fred Bergsten	October 2018
	Evan G. Greenberg
	James P. Hoffa
	Harold McGraw III
	Timothy P. Smucker
	Pete Ricketts	December 2011

Office of the Vice President

Main article: Office of the Vice President of the United States

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Marc Short	March 2019	January 20, 2021
Senior Advisor to the Vice President	Thomas A. Rose		January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the Vice President	Kara Brooks	January 25, 2017	January 20, 2021
Communications Director for the Second Lady			January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the Vice President	Sara Egeland		January 20, 2021
Policy Director for the Second Lady			January 20, 2021
Deputy Assistant to the Vice President (External Affairs)	Lani Czarnieck		January 20, 2021
Special Assistant to the Vice President	Zach Bauer		January 20, 2021
Director of Administration for the Vice President	Katherine Purucke		January 20, 2021
Director of Domestic Policy for the Vice President	Daris Meeks	January 25, 2017	January 20, 2021
Director of Legislative Affairs for the Vice President	Jonathan Hiler		January 20, 2021
Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Vice President	Sarah Makin		January 20, 2021
Deputy Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Vice President	Andeliz Castillo		January 20, 2021
Director of Scheduling for the Vice President	Meghan Patenaude		January 20, 2021
Director of Speechwriting for the Vice President	Stephen Ford		January 20, 2021
National Security Advisor to the Vice President	Keith Kellogg	April 27, 2018	January 20, 2021
Press Secretary to the Vice President	Katie Miller	October 1, 2019	March 27, 2020
Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President	Josh Paciorek	March 2017	January 20, 2021
Chief Counsel to the Vice President	Matt Morgan	January 8, 2018	January 20, 2021
Chief of Staff to the Second Lady	Jana Toner	January 2018	January 20, 2021

Previous officeholders

Office	Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Josh Pitcock	January 22, 2017	July 28, 2017
	Nick Ayers	July 28, 2017	December 31, 2018	Ayers tweeted on December 8 that he would be departing at the end of the year.
Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Jen Pavlik	January 22, 2017	September 2017
Director of Communications to the Vice President	Jarrod Agen	January 2017	June 2019
Press Secretary to the Vice President	Marc Lotter	January 22, 2017	October 2017
	Alyssa Farah	October 2017	August 31, 2019	Resigned to become the Pentagon Press Secretary.
Deputy Staff Secretary to the Vice President	Francis J. Brooke			Resigned to become Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.
Associate Director of Domestic Policy for the Vice President
National Security Advisor to the Vice President	Andrea L. Thompson	January 26, 2017	September 11, 2017
Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President	Joan Virginia O'Hara
Special Advisor to the Vice President on European and Russian Affairs	Jennifer Williams	April 2019	February 3, 2020	Williams returned to the State Dept. Her next assignment will be with CENTCOM.
Special Advisor to the Vice President on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism	Olivia Troye	2018	July 2020	Troye is a member of the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform.

Miscellaneous

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation	Tadd M. Johnson	December 27, 2017 (Confirmed December 21, 2017, voice vote)
	Lisa Johnson Billy
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	Scott Walker	July 2019
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	Drew Maloney	July 2019 (Appointed Member of the Board March 2019)

Member of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council

Main article: Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Member of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council	Greg Abbott	January 20, 2015
	Ron DeSantis	January 8, 2019
	John Bel Edwards	January 11, 2016
	Kay Ivey	April 10, 2017
	Tate Reeves	January 14, 2020

Member of the Council of Governors

Main article: Council of Governors

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Member of the Council of Governors	Steve Bullock	Reappointment (Tenure began February 24, 2015)
	Asa Hutchinson	July 12, 2018
	Mike DeWine	February 22, 2019
	Doug Ducey
	David Ige
	Ned Lamont
	Mike Parson
	J. B. Pritzker
	Pete Ricketts
	Tim Walz

Commission on Presidential Scholars

Main article: Presidential Scholars Program

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chairman of the Commission on Presidential Scholars	Eileen Lappin Weiser
Member of the Commission on Presidential Scholars	Donald Wuerl
	Tina S. Holland
	Sally Atwater
	Darla Romfo	June 2018

The Alyce Spotted Bear and Wakter Soboleff Commission on Native Children

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Member of the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children	Jesse Delmar	January 2018

President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chairman of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities	Johnny C. Taylor Jr.	February 2018
Member of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities	Aminta H. Breaux	September 2018
	James E. Clark
	Phyllis Dawkins
	Rodney A. Ellis
	Marshall C. Grigsby
	Billy C. Hawkins
	Jerry M. Hunter
	Nick Justice
	Ronald A. Johnson
	Harold L. Martin
	Bernard J. Milano
	Connie Rath
	Kevin Wilson Williams

President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Member of the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities	Emily Colson	April 2018
	Olegario D. Cantos VII
	Claudia Horn
	Stephanie Hubach
	Annette Liike
	Vijayalakshmi Appareddy
	Karen Moderow
	Christopher Glenn Neeley

White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Main article: White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Co-chair of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders	Michelle Steel	January 2019
	Paul Hsu
Member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders	Jennifer Carnahan
	David B. Cohen
	Grace Y. Lee
	George Leing
	Jan-Ie Low
	Herman Martir
	Prem Parameswaran
	Amata Coleman Radewagen
	Sean Reyes
	Chiling Tong

Federal Service Impasses Panel

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel	Mark A. Carter	July 2017 (Five year term ending on January 10, 2022)
	Andrea Fischer Newman
	David R. Osborne
	Karen Czarnecki
	Donald Todd
	Jonathan Riches
	Vincent Vernuccio

National Women's Business Council

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Chairperson of the National Women's Business Council	Liz Sara	July 2018

United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally

Office	Nominee	Assumed office	Left office
Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation	Terrence Berg	December 2017
	Diane S. Sykes
Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat Malaria Globally	Kenneth William Staley

Previous officeholders

Office	Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
White House Chief of Staff	Reince Priebus	January 20, 2017	July 31, 2017	His tenure may be considered the shortest in the office's history, excluding interim appointments, if James Baker's separate tenures as Chief of Staff under two different presidents (Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush) are combined (Baker served only 150 days as Bush's Chief of Staff).
	John F. Kelly	July 31, 2017	January 2, 2019	President Trump announced that General Kelly would be leaving at the end of 2018. Kelly commented, "The vast majority of people who worked in the White House were decent people who were doing the best they could to serve the nation. They’ve unfortunately paid quite a price for that in reputation and future employment. They don’t deserve that. They deserve better than that, because they kept the train from careening off the tracks. The climate—the work environment—is always set by the boss. And people, generally speaking, endured it as long as they could. Until they couldn’t."
	Mick Mulvaney	January 2, 2019	March 30, 2020	After leaving his role as White House Chief of Staff, Mulvaney served as Special Envoy for Northern Ireland beginning on May 1, 2020. He called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the evening of January 6, 2021, to inform him of his resignation from the role of Special Envoy.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget		February 16, 2017	March 31, 2020
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Russell Vought	March 14, 2018	July 22, 2020	Vought performed the functions of OMB Director while Mulvaney was Acting Chief of Staff, and continued as acting director thereafter. The Senate confirmed Vought as OMB Director on July 20, 2020.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Implementation)	Katie Walsh	January 20, 2017	March 30, 2017	Moving to "Trump's outside political group" America First Policies.
White House Principal Deputy Chief of Staff
	Kirstjen Nielsen	September 6, 2017	December 6, 2017	Left to become United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
	James W. Carroll	December 6, 2017	February 9, 2018	Left to become acting director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.
	Zachary Fuentes	June 6, 2018	January 2, 2019
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations)	Joe Hagin	January 20, 2017	July 6, 2018
	Daniel Walsh	July 6, 2018	November 26, 2019
Director of the White House Military Office		September 6, 2017	July 2018
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy)	Rick Dearborn	January 20, 2017	March 16, 2018	Formerly the executive director of Trump's presidential transition team, he was a Deputy Chief of Staff until resigning in March 2018, reportedly to seek a job in the private sector.
Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff	Carrie Bock	January 2017	April 2017
Associate Director of Presidential Personnel		May 1, 2017	September 2018
Director of the Office of Chief of Staff	Michael Ambrosini	January 22, 2017	September 2017
	Emily Mallon	August 2017	March 2019
Senior Counselor to the President	Steve Bannon	January 20, 2017	August 18, 2017	Returned to Breitbart News. Per some sources, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly asked for his immediate resignation on August 18. Bannon said he submitted a two-week resignation notice on August 4.
White House Chief Strategist
Counselor to the President	Kellyanne Conway	January 20, 2017	August 31, 2020	Also, Conway's husband George Conway left the Lincoln Project.
	Johnny DeStefano	February 9, 2018	May 24, 2019	Oversaw the Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs, Presidential Personnel, Political Affairs, and Public Liaison. Became a consultant for Juul.
Director of the Office of Public Liaison		September 25, 2017	February 9, 2018
		February 9, 2018	March 18, 2018
White House Director of Presidential Personnel		January 20, 2017	January 2018
	Sean Doocey	January 2018	February 2020
Advisor to the President (Domestic Policy)	Kara McKee	January 20, 2017	August 1, 2018
Special Advisor to the President (COVID-19)	Scott Atlas	August 10, 2020	November 30, 2020	In September 2020, 78 of Atlas's former colleagues at the Stanford Medical School signed an open letter criticizing Atlas, writing that he had made "falsehoods and misrepresentations of science" that "run counter to established science" and "undermine public health authorities and the credible science that guides effective public health policy." Atlas resigned days before the end of the maximum 130-day period in which he could serve with "special government employee" status.
Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council	Andrew Bremberg	January 20, 2017	February 2, 2019	Became Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations.
	Joe Grogan	February 2, 2019	May 24, 2020
Special Advisor for Human Trafficking	Heather C. Fischer	June 8, 2020	September 31, 2020
Senior Counselor to the President (Economic Initiatives)	Dina Powell	January 22, 2017	January 12, 2018
Deputy National Security Advisor (Strategy)		March 15, 2017
	Nadia Schadlow	January 21, 2018	April 27, 2018
White House Cabinet Secretary	Bill McGinley	January 20, 2017	July 2019
White House Deputy Cabinet Secretary	John Mashburn		mid-April 2018	Became a senior advisor to secretary of the Department of Energy Rick Perry.
Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform	Carl Icahn		August 18, 2017	Left amid concerns of conflicts of interest.
Assistant to the President (Intergovernmental and Technology Initiatives)	Reed Cordish		February 16, 2018	Stated he never planned to stay with the administration for more than a year and that his policy role was complete.
Deputy Assistant to the President	Sebastian Gorka		August 25, 2017	Failed to obtain the security clearance necessary for work on national security issues.
	Carlos Díaz-Rosillo		June 19, 2018	Left to work at the National Endowment for the Humanities as Senior Deputy Chairman.
	Sean Cairncross		June 2019
	Ira Greenstein	February 1, 2017	March 30, 2018
Deputy Assistant to the President (Domestic Policy)	Lance Leggitt	February 9, 2018
Deputy Assistant to the President (Strategic Communications)	Michael Anton	February 8, 2017	April 8, 2018
Special Assistant to the President	Andrew Surabian	January 2017	September 5, 2017
	Reagan Thompson	January 2018 (Appointed by Melania Trump)	July 2018
Director of Policy for the First Lady
Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Lindsay Reynolds	February 1, 2017	April 2020	Resigned to spend time with her family.
	Stephanie Grisham	April 7, 2020	January 6, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Special Assistant to the President	Chris Herndon	January 23, 2017	December 2018
White House Director of Information Technology
Special Assistant to the President (Agriculture, Trade and Food Assistance)	Ray Starling	February 2017	May 2018	Left to become USDA Chief of Staff.
Special Assistant to the President (Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy)	Michael Catanzaro		April 2018
Special Assistant to the President (International Energy and Environment Policy)	George David Banks		February 14, 2018	Resigned after learning he would not be able to obtain a security clearance due to past marijuana use.
Special Assistant to the President (Legislative Affairs)	Ben Howard	January 2017	January 2018
	Cindy Simms	February 2017	March 2018
Special Assistant to the President (Office of Communications)	Cliff Sims	January 2017	May 2018
	Kelly Sadler	May 2017	June 2018	Mocked Senator John McCain in a May 2018 closed-door meeting in front of two dozen other staffers.
Special Assistant to the President (Technology, Telecom, and Cyber-Security Policy)	Grace Koh	February 23, 2017	March 2018	Left to join the private law firm DLA Piper.
National Security Advisor	Michael Flynn	January 20, 2017	February 13, 2017	Resigned after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the nature and content of his communications with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. His tenure was the shortest in the office's history.
	H. R. McMaster	February 20, 2017	April 9, 2018	McMaster was criticized in August 2017 after he fired several National Security Council staff members, but Trump affirmed his confidence in McMaster. On March 15, 2018, it was reported that Trump had decided to dismiss McMaster at a later, unspecified date. McMaster resigned as National Security Advisor on March 22, 2018, effective April 9. In 2024 McMaster wrote a book critical of Trump.
	John Bolton	April 9, 2018	September 10, 2019	Resigned amid disagreements within the Trump administration on Korea, Iran and Afghanistan policy.
Deputy National Security Advisor	K. T. McFarland	February 20, 2017	May 19, 2017	Reported not to be a good fit at the NSC, she resigned after less than four months. Trump nominated her to be United States Ambassador to Singapore, but her nomination stalled and was withdrawn.
	Ricky L. Waddell	May 19, 2017	May 15, 2018
	Mira Ricardel	May 15, 2018	November 14, 2018	Left after reported disputes with Defense Secretary James Mattis and First Lady Melania Trump.
	Charles Kupperman	January 11, 2019	September 22, 2019	Acting National Security Advisor from September 10, 2019, until the appointment of Robert O'Brien on September 18, 2019.
	Matthew Pottinger	September 22, 2019	January 6, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Senior Director for Asian Affairs of the National Security Council		January 20, 2017	September 22, 2019	Became Deputy National Security Advisor.
Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle East and North African Affairs	Victoria Coates	October 10, 2019	February 20, 2020	Reassigned to Energy Department after rumors that she was the author of an anonymous op-ed criticizing Trump.
Homeland Security Advisor	Tom Bossert	January 20, 2017	April 10, 2018	His resignation came after John R. Bolton was announced as National Security Adviser, indicating Bolton's intentions to name his own people to supporting positions. Bossert had previously expressed interest in becoming involved in policy issues such as counterterrorism and cyberwarfare, but had spent much of his time as Homeland Security Advisor as the administration's face in dealing with hurricanes that affected Texas and Florida.
	Doug Fears	June 1, 2018	July 12, 2019
	Peter J. Brown	July 12, 2019	February 7, 2020	Named Special Representative for Puerto Rico's Disaster Recovery.
Deputy Homeland Security Advisor	Rob Joyce	October 13, 2017	April 10, 2018
National Security Advisor	Keith Kellogg	February 13, 2017	February 20, 2017
Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council		January 20, 2017	April 27, 2018
	Fred Fleitz	April 27, 2018	October 15, 2018
Executive Secretary of the National Security Council	Joan Virginia O'Hara	November 19, 2018	October 11, 2019
Director of Strategic Planning of the National Security Council	Rich Higgins	January 20, 2017	July 21, 2017
Deputy Chief of Staff for the National Security Council	Tera Dahl	January 20, 2017	July 6, 2017
Senior Director for Strategic Communications and Spokesperson for the National Security Council	Garrett Marquis	May 29, 2018	September 11, 2019
Senior Director for Intelligence Programs of the National Security Council	Ezra Cohen-Watnick	January 2017	August 2, 2017
	Michael Barry	October 2017	July 2018
	Michael Ellis	March 2, 2020	November 2020	Ellis reviewed the book The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton before its publication. On January 19, 2021, Ellis became NSA General Counsel, a career position that could continue into the Biden administration. On January 20, he was put on administrative leave pending a review of his appointment.
Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the National Security Council	Craig Deare	January 20, 2017	February 18, 2017
	Juan Cruz	May 11, 2017	August 2018
Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs of the National Security Council	Fiona Hill	April 2017	June 2019	Both Hill and Morrison were witnesses in the impeachment inquiry.
	Tim Morrison	August 2019	October 31, 2019
	Andrew Peek	November 1, 2019	January 19, 2020	Was placed on administrative leave following a security-related investigation and did not return to the role.
	Tom Williams	January 20, 2020	June 18, 2020
	Ryan Tully		January 6, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Director for European Affairs of the National Security Council	Alexander Vindman	July 2018	February 7, 2020	Vindman and his twin brother Yevgeny, also an Army Lieutenant Colonel and an ethics lawyer, were removed from the NSC two days after Trump's impeachment acquittal.
Senior Director for Middle East and North African Affairs of the National Security Council	Derek Harvey	January 27, 2017	July 27, 2017
	Rob Greenway	May 2017	January 7, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Senior Director for African Affairs of the National Security Council	Robin Townley	January 20, 2017	February 10, 2017	Denied a critical security clearance by the CIA.
	Cyril Sartor	August 3, 2017	June 2019
	Erin Walsh	July 2019	January 7, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Senior Director for Gulf Affairs of the National Security Council	Kirsten Fontenrose	March 15, 2018	November 16, 2018
Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense of the National Security Council	Tim Ziemer	April 2017	May 8, 2018	Ziemer was the White House's point man on global health crises. His duties were taken over by the Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense.
Senior Director for International Organizations and Alliances of the National Security Council	Jennifer Arangio	January 2017	July 14, 2018
Senior Director for Counterterrorism of the National Security Council	Kash Patel	August 6, 2019	February 19, 2020	Moved to be a senior advisor at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence upon Richard Grenell becoming acting DNI.
Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy of the National Security Council	Earl Matthews	July 14, 2018	November 7, 2019
	Mark Vandroff	March 2020	January 7, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Senior Director for Emerging Technologies of the National Security Council	William Happer	September 2018	September 11, 2019
Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy of the National Security Council	Luciana Borio	July 2017	May 2018
Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction of the National Security Council	Anthony Ruggiero	July 2, 2018	January 7, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
White House Staff Secretary	Rob Porter	January 20, 2017	February 7, 2018	Resigned his position as White House Staff Secretary after domestic abuse allegations from both of his former wives came to public attention.
White House Personal Secretary	Madeleine Westerhout	January 20, 2017	February 2, 2019
Director of Oval Office Operations		February 2, 2019	August 29, 2019	Fired after sharing details of Trump family matters and Oval Office operations with reporters.
White House Press Secretary	Sean Spicer	January 20, 2017	July 21, 2017	Announced his resignation July 21, 2017, although he remained at the White House in an unspecified capacity until August 31. His tenure was the sixth-shortest in the office's history.
White House Director of Communications		January 20, 2017	March 6, 2017
		June 2, 2017	July 21, 2017
	Michael Dubke	March 6, 2017	June 2, 2017	His tenure was the fourth-shortest in the office's history, excluding interim appointments.
	Anthony Scaramucci	July 25, 2017	July 31, 2017	His tenure was the shortest in the office's history, breaking the former record held by Jack Koehler. Scaramucci is a member of the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform.
	Hope Hicks	August 16, 2017	March 29, 2018	On February 27, 2018, Hicks told a Congressional committee that she had told "white lies" on Trump's behalf. The next day Hicks announced her intention to resign, effective March 29.
White House Director of Strategic Communications		January 20, 2017	September 12, 2017
	Mercedes Schlapp	September 12, 2017	July 1, 2019	Pres. Trump tweeted that Schlapp would be joining his 2020 presidential campaign.
	Alyssa Farah	April 7, 2020	December 4, 2020	Resigned; "plans to start a consulting firm[;] ... had initially planned to leave before the election" per an anonymous source
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Communications)	Bill Shine	July 5, 2018	March 8, 2019	Resigned to work for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign.
White House Director of Communications
	Stephanie Grisham	July 1, 2019	April 7, 2020	Grisham was the First Lady's Press Secretary and Communications Director. New Chief of Staff Mark Meadows removed her, and she returned to the East Wing to be the First Lady's Chief of Staff.
White House Press Secretary
	Sarah Huckabee Sanders	July 26, 2017	June 30, 2019
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary		January 22, 2017	July 26, 2017	Became White House Press Secretary.
Deputy Press Secretary	Lindsay Walters		April 13, 2019
	Hogan Gidley	October 11, 2017	January 31, 2019
	Sarah Matthews	June 2019	January 6, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
White House Deputy Director of Communications and Research	Raj Shah	January 20, 2017	September 12, 2017
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary		September 12, 2017	January 14, 2019
White House Deputy Director of Communications	Jessica Ditto	January 20, 2017	March 2019
Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations	Boris Epshteyn	January 22, 2017	March 25, 2017
Deputy White House Communications Director	Josh Raffel	January 20, 2017	February 28, 2018	Resigned in order to move back to New York City because of "family obligations".
	Adam Kennedy	November 2018	March 6, 2020	Kennedy held several staff positions from the start of the Trump administration through March 2020.
Senior White House Assistant Press Secretary	Michael Short	January 20, 2017	July 25, 2017	White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci stated his intent to fire Short in an interview with Politico on July 25, 2017. Short resigned later that day.
White House Director of Media Affairs	Helen Aguirre Ferré	January 23, 2017	August 2018	Resigned to become Director for Strategic Communications and Public Affairs for the National Endowment for the Arts.
White House Director of Advance	George Gigicos	January 22, 2017	July 31, 2017
Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council	Paul Winfree		December 2017
White House Director of Budget Policy
White House Director of Legislative Affairs	Marc Short		July 20, 2018	February 2019: Returned to White House as chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence.
	Shahira Knight	July 2018	June 17, 2019	Decided to depart as cooperation with Congress had taken a back seat to election politics.
Special Assistant to the President (Economic Policy)		January 20, 2017	July 2018
White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs of Nominations	Mary Elizabeth Taylor	January 20, 2017	October 1, 2018	Became Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs.
Director of the National Economic Council	Gary Cohn	January 20, 2017	March 13, 2018	Announcement followed Trump's proposal to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum, and Trump's cancellation of a meeting with end-users of steel and aluminium that Cohn had arranged in an attempt to dissuade the president from the planned tariffs.
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council for Economic Policy (Domestic Policy)	Jeremy Katz	January 22, 2017	January 2018
	Andrew Olmem	July 2, 2018	June 19, 2020
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council (International Policy)	Kenneth Juster	January 20, 2017	June 8, 2017	Became U.S. Ambassador to India.
	Everett Eissenstat	June 8, 2017	July 2, 2018
	Clete Willems	July 2, 2018	March 22, 2019
	Kelly Ann Shaw	March 22, 2019	October 25, 2019
Director of the National Trade Council	Peter Navarro	January 22, 2017	April 29, 2017
Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs	Justin R. Clark	January 20, 2017	March 13, 2018
Director of the Office of Public Liaison	George Sifakis	March 6, 2017	September 25, 2017	Left after less than seven months.
	Justin R. Clark	March 18, 2018	December 7, 2018
	Steve Munisteri	December 7, 2018	February 2, 2019
Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison		February 14, 2017	February 2, 2019
Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison	Omarosa	January 20, 2017	January 20, 2018	Resignation was announced December 13, 2017. It was reported that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly fired Newman, but Newman disputed the account, stating that she resigned.
Director of Oval Office Operations	Keith Schiller	January 20, 2017	September 20, 2017	Left reportedly after White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told him he needed permission to speak to the president and to provide written reports of those conversations.
White House Director of Political Affairs	Bill Stepien	January 21, 2017	December 7, 2018
White House Counsel	Don McGahn	January 20, 2017	October 17, 2018	President Trump tweeted in August 2018 that McGahn would leave after the Kavanaugh confirmation vote.
	Emmet Flood	October 17, 2018	December 10, 2018
White House Deputy Counsel	Makan Delrahim	January 20, 2017	September 28, 2017	Left to become United States Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
	Gregory G. Katsas	January 22, 2017	December 8, 2017	Left to become a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
	Stefan Passantino	January 20, 2017	August 2018
	Annie Donaldson	February 2017	December 2018
White House Special Counsel	Ty Cobb	July 2017	May 2018	Cobb commented, "I believed then and now I worked for the country. I didn’t really have any difficulty with that. People's reactions were frequently hostile when they found out what I was doing. How hypocritical is it to think that the Democrats deserve the best people and Republicans don’t? I have served both. It’s the same country."
White House Associate Counsel	Stacy Cline Amin	January 2017
	Rene Augustine		January 2018
	John Bash		December 2017	Left to become United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas.
	James Burnham		October 2017	Resigned to become a United States Assistant Attorney General.
	Michael Ellis	February 6, 2017	March 2, 2020	Ellis reportedly revealed classified intelligence reports to Devin Nunes, for whom he formerly worked. He was involved in the Trump–Ukraine scandal and refused to testify in the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment investigation. Became senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council.
	Chris Grieco	January 2017	August 2018
	Brian Rabbitt		November 2017
	Jim Schultz	January 20, 2017	November 24, 2017
	Steven Menashi	September 2018	November 14, 2019	Left to become a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
White House Deputy Associate Counsel	Stuart McCommas	January 2017	April 2018
Personal attorney for President Trump	John M. Dowd	June 2017	March 22, 2018	Dowd cited Trump's repeatedly ignoring advice, clashing over legal strategy, and the recent hire of attorney Joseph diGenova to the legal team as justification for his resignation, while Trump cited his lack of confidence in Dowd to handle the investigation.
Legal Advisor to the President	Marc Kasowitz	May 24, 2017	July 20, 2017
White House speechwriter	David Sorensen	January 20, 2017	February 9, 2018	Resigned after his ex-wife Jessica Corbett detailed allegations of physical and emotional abuse during their two-and-a-half year marriage. Sorensen denied the allegations, alleged that she had been abusive towards him and submitted his resignation.
White House speechwriter and Policy Aide to the President	Darren Beattie		August 19, 2018
Personal Aide to the President	John McEntee	January 20, 2017	March 13, 2018
	Jordan Karem	March 13, 2018	January 2019
Director of Oval Office Operations		June 6, 2018
Physician to the President	Ronny Jackson	July 25, 2013	March 28, 2018
Chairman of the Strategic and Policy Forum	Stephen A. Schwarzman	January 22, 2017	August 16, 2017
Chair of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission	Chris Christie	March 29, 2017	November 1, 2017
Member of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission	Charlie Baker
	Roy Cooper
	Patrick J. Kennedy
	Bertha Madras
	Pam Bondi
Vice Chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity	Kris Kobach	May 11, 2017	January 3, 2018
Co-chair of the Council of Governors	Mary Fallin	May 2017	January 14, 2019
	Dannel Malloy	Reappointment (Tenure began February 4, 2010)	January 9, 2019
Member of the Council of Governors	Terry Branstad	March 9, 2011	May 24, 2017
	Matt Mead		May 1, 2017
	Brian Sandoval	February 21, 2013
	Terry McAuliffe	February 24, 2015
	Rick Snyder
	Eric Greitens	May 2017	June 1, 2018
	Bill Haslam	Reappointment (Tenure began in 2014)	January 19, 2019
	Mark Dayton	Reappointment (Tenure began February 24, 2015)	January 7, 2019
	Rick Scott	May 1, 2017	January 7, 2019
	Bill Walker		December 3, 2018
	Charlie Baker	Reappointment (Tenure began in 2016)	February 22, 2019
	John Bel Edwards
Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget	Margaret Weichert	February 28, 2018	March 2020	Became a managing director at Accenture.
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs	Neomi Rao	July 18, 2017	March 18, 2019	Left to become a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
United States Chief Information Officer	Suzette Kent	January 29, 2018	July 2020
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	Kemp Chester	January 20, 2017	March 27, 2017
	Richard J. Baum	March 28, 2017	February 9, 2018
Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of National Drug Control Policy and White House Liaison	Taylor Weyeneth	January 23, 2017	January 24, 2018	Formerly White House Liaison at the Office of National Drug Control Policy as a political appointee and Deputy White House Liaison/Special Assistant at the Department of Treasury, Weyeneth was the Deputy Chief of Staff until resigning on January 24, 2018. Hired by HUD in March 2018 on opioid policy, he said in January he was "unfairly criticized".
Trade Representative	Maria Pagan	January 20, 2017	March 2, 2017
	Stephen Vaughn	March 2, 2017	May 15, 2017
Senior Advisor to the President (Economic Affairs)	Kevin Hassett	April 15, 2020	July 2020
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers		September 13, 2017	June 28, 2019
	Tomas J. Philipson	June 28, 2019	June 24, 2020
	Tyler Goodspeed	June 23, 2020	January 6, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Special Representative for International Negotiations	Jason Greenblatt	January 20, 2017	October 31, 2019	Greenblatt left before the release of the peace plan that he worked on for over two years.
Special Chairman of Federal Salary Council	Ron Sanders	December 2017	October 26, 2020	Resigned in protest to a recent Executive Order stripping federal protections from key federal workers.
White House Social Secretary	Rickie Niceta	February 8, 2017	January 6, 2021	Resigned following the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

See also

• Republican National Committee chairmanship election, 2017 for the national leadership of Trump's political party
• Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates for the judicial nominees to fill the vacancies formerly held by Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy
• Cabinet of Donald Trump, for the vetting process undergone by top-level roles including advice and consent by the Senate
• Sr. Advisor to the President, the role formerly held by Karl Rove under George W. Bush, then by Valerie Jarrett/David Axelrod/etc under Barack Obama
• List of executive branch 'czars' e.g. Special Advisor to the President
• List of economic advisors to Donald Trump, concentrating on the informal advisors that are not officially part of the Trump administration
• List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump
• List of short-tenure Donald Trump political appointments