Denis McDonough

Denis McDonough


27th White House Chief of Staff
Incumbent
Assumed office January 25, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Jack Lew
Deputy National Security Advisor
In office October 22, 2010 – January 25, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Thomas Donilon
Succeeded by	Tony Blinken
Personal details
Born	Denis Richard McDonough (1969-12-02) December 2, 1969 Stillwater, Minnesota, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Karin (Hillstrom) McDonough
Alma mater	St. John's University, Minnesota Georgetown University
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Denis Richard McDonough (born December 2, 1969) is the 27th and current White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Jack Lew at the start of President Obama's second term.^[1]

Early life

McDonough was born on December 2, 1969, in Stillwater, Minnesota.^[2] He is one of eleven children of Kathleen Marie (O'Mahony) and William Joseph McDonough.^[3]^[4] He was raised in a devout Catholic family.^[5]

McDonough attended Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he played safety on the Johnnies football team for Hall of Fame coach John Gagliardi.^[6]^[7] McDonough was a member of teams that won two conference titles in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.^[6] McDonough graduated from Saint John's University with a B.A. summa cum laude in history and Spanish in 1992.^[6] After graduation, McDonough traveled extensively throughout Latin America and taught high school in Belize.^[6]

He graduated from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with an MSFS degree in 1996.^[6]

Early career

From 1996 to 1999, McDonough worked as an aide to the House Foreign Affairs Committee,^[8] where he focused on Latin America.^[2] McDonough then served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Tom Daschle.^[6] After Daschle's re-election defeat in 2004, McDonough became legislative director for newly elected Senator Ken Salazar.^[6] McDonough later served as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in 2004.^[2]

In 2007, Senator Barack Obama's chief foreign policy advisor, Navy reservist Mark Lippert, was called into active duty and recruited McDonough to serve as his replacement during Lippert's deployment to Iraq.^[6]^[9] McDonough continued to serve as a senior foreign policy advisor to Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.^[2]^[10]

Obama administration

After President Obama's election, he joined the administration as the National Security Council's head of Strategic Communication.^[8] He also served as National Security Council Chief of Staff.^[11]

McDonough, seated, third from right in blue shirt, in the Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid.

On October 22, 2010, President Barack Obama announced that McDonough would be replacing Thomas E. Donilon as Deputy National Security Advisor, who had been promoted to succeed General James L. Jones as National Security Advisor.^[12] McDonough was seen in photos of the White House Situation Room taken during the monitoring of the SEAL operation in Pakistan that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.

On January 25, 2013, Obama appointed Denis McDonough as his Chief of Staff. In February 2013 McDonough urged lawmakers to quickly confirm Chuck Hagel and John O. Brennan to their posts in Obama's national security team, expressing "grave concern" about the delays.

As Chief of Staff, the former Congressional staffer has made greater outreach to Republican Senators a major priority, with one Republican referring to his tenure as Chief of Staff as "a breath of fresh air".^[13]

References

↑ The Washington Post (2013). Denis McDonough to be Obama’s new chief of staff. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
1 2 3 4 Michael Cooper (November 23, 2008). "The New Team". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ George Thole (April 17, 2008). "Thole: Remember sacrifices of those who serve". Stillwater Gazette. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VC82-PWN
↑ "Who is Denis McDonough?". Our Daily Thread. 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Arthur Eisele (Winter 2009). "At Home in the West Wing: An Interview with Denis McDonough '92" (PDF). Saint John's Magazine. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 4, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ Thayer Evans (September 18, 2009). "No Whistles, No Tackling and No End in Sight for St. John's Coach". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
1 2 Garance Franke-Ruta (October 22, 2010). "Denis McDonough: Five things worth knowing". WhoRunsGov. The Washington Post Company. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ Monica Langley (September 22, 2007). "From the Campaign to the Battlefront". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ "Obama's People". The New York Times Magazine. January 18, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ Helene Cooper (July 9, 2010). "The Saturday Profile: The Adviser at the Heart of National Security". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ Peter Baker (October 22, 2010). "Obama Making National Security Appointment". The New York Times. The Caucus Blog. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
↑ Cass, Michael (August 22, 2013). "Sen. Bob Corker explains why he missed Obama speech". The Tennessean. Retrieved August 31, 2015.

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Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Donilon	Deputy National Security Advisor 2010–2013	Succeeded by Tony Blinken
Preceded by Jack Lew	White House Chief of Staff 2013–present	Incumbent
United States order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by Jeh Johnson as Secretary of Homeland Security	Order of Precedence of the United States as White House Chief of Staff	Succeeded by Shaun Donovan as Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Obama Administration personnel

Cabinet and cabinet-level

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
Secretary of State	John Kerry	2013–	Secretary of Treasury	Jack Lew	2013–
Secretary of Defense	Ashton Carter	2015–	Attorney General	Loretta Lynch	2015–
Secretary of the Interior	Sally Jewell	2013–	Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack	2009–
Secretary of Commerce	Penny Pritzker	2013–	Secretary of Labor	Thomas Perez	2013–
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Sylvia Mathews Burwell	2014–	Secretary of Education Secretary of Transportation	Arne Duncan Anthony Foxx	2009– 2013–
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Julian Castro	2014–	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Robert A. McDonald	2014–
Secretary of Energy	Ernest Moniz	2013–	Secretary of Homeland Security	Jeh Johnson	2013–

Vice President	Joe Biden	2009–	White House Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough	2013–
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Shaun Donovan	2014–	Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Gina McCarthy	2013–
Ambassador to the United Nations	Samantha Power	2013–	Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Jason Furman	2013–
Trade Representative	Michael Froman	2013–	Administrator of the Small Business Administration	Maria Contreras-Sweet	2014–

Below solid line: Granted Cabinet rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet. See also: Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet

Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Jack Lew Denis McDonough Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle Rob Nabors	2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013– 2009–11 2011–13 2013–15	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan	Jim Jones Thomas E. Donilon Susan Rice Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough Tony Blinken Avril Haines Douglas Lute^†	2009–10 2010–13 2013– 2009–10 2010–13 2013–14 2015– 2009–13
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco Anita Decker Breckenridge	2009–11 2011–14 2014–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	Ben Rhodes John O. Brennan Lisa Monaco	2009– 2009–13 2013–
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning	Mark B. Childress Kristie Canegallo	2012–14 2014–	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009–10 2011–12
Senior Advisor to the President	David Axelrod David Plouffe Daniel Pfeiffer Shailagh Murray	2009–11 2011–13 2013–15 2015–	White House Communications Director	Anita Dunn Daniel Pfeiffer Jennifer Palmieri Jen Psaki	2009 2009–13 2013–15 2015–
Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Pete Rouse Brian Deese Pete Rouse John Podesta	2009–10 2015– 2011–13 2014–15	Deputy White House Communications Director	Jen Psaki Jennifer Palmieri Amy Brundage	2009–11 2011–14 2014–15
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Director of Public Engagement Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Director, National Economic Council	Valerie Jarrett Christina Tchen Jon Carson Paulette Aniskoff Cecilia Muñoz David Agnew Jerry Abramson Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling Jeffrey Zients	2009– 2009–11 2011–13 2013– 2009–12 2012–14 2014– 2009–10 2011–14 2014–	White House Press Secretary Deputy Press Secretary Director of Special Projects Director of Speechwriting White House Counsel	Robert Gibbs Jay Carney Josh Earnest Bill Burton Josh Earnest Eric Schultz Stephanie Cutter Jon Favreau Cody Keenan Greg Craig Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler W. Neil Eggleston	2009–11 2011–13 2013– 2009–11 2011–13 2014– 2010–11 2009–13 2013– 2009–10 2010–11 2011–14 2014–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Diana Farrell Brian Deese Jason Furman Paul Volcker	2009–11 2011–13 2009–13 2009–11	Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors Miguel Rodriguez Katie Beirne Fallon	2009–11 2011–13 2013 2013–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee Jason Furman	2009–10 2010–13 2013–	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski Amy Rosenbaum	2009– 2014–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^† David Kalbaugh	2009–12 2012–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Director, Office of Political Affairs	Patrick Gaspard David Simas	2009–11 2013–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter R. Orszag Jack Lew Jeffrey Zients Sylvia Mathews Burwell Brian Deese Shaun Donovan	2009–10 2010–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014 2014–	Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer	Aneesh Chopra Todd Park Megan Smith Vivek Kundra Steven VanRoekel Tony Scott	2009–12 2012–14 2014– 2009–11 2011–14 2015–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–13	Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Nancy Hogan Johnathan McBride Valerie Green	2010–14 2014–15 2015–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom Brian Deese	2010 2011–13 2013–15	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle White Crutchfield George D. Mulligan, Jr. Emmett Beliveau	2009–11 2011– 2009–13 2013–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk Michael Froman	2009–13 2013–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu Broderick Johnson	2009–13 2013–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes Cecilia Muñoz	2009–12 2012–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith Rachana Bhowmik Michael Robertson Gaurab Bansal	2009–11 2011–13 2013–15 2015–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–11 2011–	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown Rajesh De Douglas Kramer Joani Walsh	2009–11 2011–12 2012–13 2014–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois Melissa Rogers	2009–2013 2013–	Assistant to the President for Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley Katy Kale Maju Varghese	2009–13 2013–15 2015–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–11	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez Brian Mosteller	2009–12 2012–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–2011	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love Marvin Nicholson	2009–11 2011–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–11	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker Breckenridge Ferial Govashiri	2009–11 2011–14 2014–
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal Dan Utech	2009–2013 2013–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–11
Director, Council on Environmental Quality	Nancy Sutley Michael Boots	2009–2014 2014–	Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Jeffrey Crowley Grant Cofax Douglas Brooks	2009–2011 2012–2014 2014–
Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–10 2011–	Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske Michael Botticelli	2009–14 2014–
White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard Deesha Dyer	2009–10 2010–11 2011–15 2015–	Director, Office of Urban Affairs	Adolfo Carrión, Jr. Racquel Russell	2009–2010 2010–
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

^*Senate-confirmation pending. †Remained from previous administration (s).

Office of the Vice President

Position	Appointee
Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Steve Ricchetti
Counsel to the Vice President	Cynthia Hogan
Counselor to the Vice President	Mike Donilon
Assistant to the Vice President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison	Evan Ryan
Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Communications	Shailagh Murray
Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Shailagh Murray
Deputy National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Brian McKeon
Residence Manager and Social Secretary for the Vice President and Second Lady	Carlos Elizondo
National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Tony Blinken

Position	Appointee
Chief of Staff to the Second Lady	Catherine M. Russell
Director of Administration for the Office of the Vice President	Moises Vela
Domestic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Terrell McSweeny
Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Jared Bernstein
Press Secretary to the Vice President	Elizabeth Alexander
Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President	Annie Tomasini
Director of Legislative Affairs	Sudafi Henry
Director of Communications for the Second Lady	Courtney O’Donnell

Current members of the Cabinet of the United States

Obama Biden

Kerry Lew Carter Lynch Jewell Vilsack Pritzker Perez Burwell Castro Foxx Moniz King McDonald Johnson Contreras-Sweet^c Donovan^c Froman^c Furman^c McCarthy^c McDonough^c Power^c

^a - acting ; ^c - cabinet-level

Cabinet of President Barack Obama (since 2009)

Cabinet

Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton (2009–2013) John Kerry (2013–present)

Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner (2009–2013) Jack Lew (2013–present)

Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates (2009–2011) Leon Panetta (2011–2013) Chuck Hagel (2013–2015) Ash Carter (2015–present)

Attorney General	Eric Holder (2009–2015) Loretta Lynch (2015–present)

Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar (2009–2013) Sally Jewell (2013–present)

Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack (2009–present)

Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke (2009–2011) John Bryson (2011–2012) Penny Pritzker (2013–present)

Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis (2009–2013) Thomas Perez (2013–present)

Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius (2009–2014) Sylvia Mathews Burwell (2014–present)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan (2009–2014) Julian Castro (2014–present)

Secretary of Transportation	Ray LaHood (2009–2013) Anthony Foxx (2013–present)

Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu (2009–2013) Ernest Moniz (2013–present)

Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan (2009–2016) John King (2016–present)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki (2009–2014) Robert McDonald (2014–present)

Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano (2009–2013) Jeh Johnson (2013–present)

Cabinet-level

Vice President	Joe Biden (2009–present)

White House Chief of Staff	Rahm Emanuel (2009–2010) William Daley (2011–2012) Jack Lew (2012–2013) Denis McDonough (2013–present)

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Lisa Jackson (2009–2013) Gina McCarthy (2013–present)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag (2009–2010) Jack Lew (2010–2012) Sylvia Mathews Burwell (2013–2014) Shaun Donovan (2014–present)

Trade Representative	Ron Kirk (2009–2013) Michael Froman (2013–present)

Ambassador to the United Nations	Susan Rice (2009–2013) Samantha Power (2013–present)

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Christina Romer (2009–2010) Austan Goolsbee (2010–2011) Alan Krueger (2011–2013) Jason Furman (2013–present)

Administrator of the Small Business Administration	Karen Mills (2012–2013)** Maria Contreras-Sweet (2014–present)

* Acting
** took office in 2009, raised to cabinet-rank in 2012

White House Chiefs of Staff

Steelman Adams Persons Watson Jones Haldeman Haig Rumsfeld Cheney Jordan Watson J. Baker Regan H. Baker Duberstein Sununu Skinner J. Baker McLarty Panetta Bowles Podesta Card Bolten Emanuel Daley Lew McDonough

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