Hotline's latest list of those rumored to be in contention for positions in the next administration -- culled, as always, from sources of varying reliability -- has shortened up a bit with the unveiling of Barack Obama's national security team this week. But there remains plenty of speculation about the still-unfilled posts.
See below for the complete list, organized by department. An asterisk denotes that the individual has said publicly he or she does not wish to be considered; underlining, that the nominee has been officially announced by the transition team.
Interior
Defenders of Wildlife exec. VP Jaime Rappoport Clark
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Ex-OR Gov. John Kitzhaber (D)
Ex-AK Gov./'04 SEN nominee Tony Knowles (D)
National Trust for Historic Preservation Pres. Richard Moe
CO Gov. Bill Ritter (D)
Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO)
MT Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D)
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA)
Agriculture
Nat'l Black Farmers Pres. John Boyd Jr.
Ex-Daschle aide/ Nat'l Farmers Union pres. Tom Buis
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)
Ex-Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
Atty Marshall Matz
Ex-Rep. Charles Stenholm (D-TX)
Ex-IA Gov. Tom Vilsack (D)*
Commerce
NM Gov./ex-UN Amb./ex-Energy Sec. Bill Richardson (D)
Labor
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
Prof./ex-Rep./ex-John Edwards mgr. David Bonior (D-MI)*
DNC vice chair/ex-AFL-CIO exec. VP Linda Chavez-Thompson
Ex-Clinton adviser Maria Echaveste
Ex-Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO)
MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)
American Rights at Work Exec. Dir. Mary Beth Maxwell
Ex-AFT Pres. Ed McElroy
Rep. George Miller (D-CA)*
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
SEIU Pres. Andy Stern*
LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)*
Complete list after the jump.
State
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Treasury
NY FED Bank Pres. Timothy Geithner
Defense
Defense Sec. Robert Gates
Justice
Ex-Dep. AG Eric Holder
HHS
Ex-Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)
HUD
Bronx Borough Pres. Adolfo Carrión Jr. (D-NY)
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC)*
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz (I)
Ex-HUD atty/ex-PA judge Nelson Diaz
NYC HPD Commis. Shaun Donovan
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin (D)
Atlanta Housing Authority CEO Renee Glover
Ex-Dep. HUD Sec./ex-Laredo mayor Saul Ramirez (D-TX)
Harvard prof. Nicholas Retsinas
LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)*
Transportation
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Ex-Dep. Trans. Sec. Mortimer Downey
Ex-FAA Admin. Jane Garvey
Ex-Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO)
San Francisco Trans. Commission exec. dir. Steve Heminger
VA Gov. Tim Kaine (D)*
Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
Ex-Trans. Sec./ex-Energy Sec. Federico Peña
PA Gov./ex-DNC Chair Ed Rendell*
NYC Trans. Commis. Jeanette Sadik-Khan
Energy
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
NCEP Exec. Dir. Jason Grumet
MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)
Ex-Supreme NATO Comm./Gen. James Jones
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris
Ex-PA Environment Sec. Kathleen McGinty
Google climate dir. Dan Reicher
PA Gov./ex-DNC Chair Ed Rendell*
CO Gov. Bill Ritter (D)
Resources for the Future pres/ex-Rep. Philip Sharp (D-IN)
CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)*
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
Ex-CA Comp./'06 GOV candidate Steve Westly (D)
Education
Denver Schools Supt. Michael Bennett
Ex-WV Gov. Gaston Caperton (D)
Univ. of TX-Pan American Pres. Bambi Cárdenas
OR Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo
Achieve Pres. Michael Cohen
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D)
Stanford prof. Linda Darling-Hamilton
Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan
NC Gov. Mike Easley (D)
UC Berkeley Dean Christopher Edley
Ex-NC Gov. Jim Hunt (D)*
Mapleton Exped. School of the Arts Dir. Michael Johnston
VA Gov. Tim Kaine (D)*
NYC Schools Chancellor/ex-asst. AG Joel Klein
Ex-MS Gov./ex-Amb. to Saudi Arabia Ray Mabus (D)
Rep. George Miller (D-CA)
NewSchools Venture Fund CEO Ted Mitchell
Ex-MS Gov./'08 SEN nominee Ronnie Musgrove (D)
Ex-Sec/State Colin Powell
DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee
Assn of Colleges for Teacher Educ. Pres. Sharon Robinson
Ex-Clinton adviser Andrew Rotherham
Ex-Clinton adviser Jonathan Schnur
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
NEA dir. of gov't relations Diane Shust
Ex-GWU Pres. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Recovery School Dist. of New Orleans Supt. Paul Vallas
Ex-WV Gov. Bob Wise (D)
Vets Affairs
MD LG/Col. Anthony Brown (D)
Ex-Sen./ex-VA Admin. Max Cleland (D-GA)
IL VA Dir./'06 IL-06 nominee Tammy Duckworth (D)
Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)*
Ex-Fisher House Foundation Chair Arnold Fisher
VA Sec. James Peake
Homeland Security
AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano (D)
Army Secretary
Ex-Sen./ex-VA Sec. Max Cleland (D-GA)
Navy Secretary
State Rep. Juan Garcia (D-TX)
UN Ambassador
Ex-State Dept. African specialist Susan Rice
NSA
Ex-Supreme NATO Comm./Ret. Gen. James Jones
CIA
Ex-CIA official John Brennan*
Ex-Nat'l Intel Council Chair John Gannon
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
CIA Dir./Gen. Michael Hayden
Ex-CIA Dep. Dir. John McLaughlin
Ex-CIA Dep. Dir. for Intel Jami Miscik
National Intelligence Director
Ret. Adm. Denny Blair
Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA)
Dep. dir. of nat'l intel Don Kerr
Ex-CIA Dep. Dir. for Intel Jami Miscik
Ex-Rep. Tim Roemer (D-IN)
EPA
MA Energy And Environmental Affairs Sec. Ian Bowles
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
Ex-NJ EPA Commis. Lisa Jackson
Environmental atty/radio host Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ex-PA Environment Sec. Kathleen McGinty
Ex-Sierra Club Pres. Lisa Renstrom
Ex-EPA Admin./ex-NJ Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R)
CTO
Princeton prof. Edward Felten
Venture capitalist/Obama adviser Julius Genachowski
Level 3 Comm. CSO/ex-Al Gore adviser Don Gips
Oracle pres. Charles Phillips
HP Exec. VP Shane Robison
Google CEO Eric Schmidt*
FCC Chair
FCC Commis. Jonathan Adelstein
Comm. atty Antoinette Bush
SC Public Service Commission member Mignon Clyburn
Comm. atty Scott Blake Harris
Ex-Obama Senate policy dir. Karen Kornbluh
Ex-FCC CoS Blair Levin
OMB
CBO chief Peter Orszag
National Economic Council
Harvard prof./ex-Treas. Sec. Larry Summers
Council of Economic Advisers
UC-Berkeley prof. Christina Romer
SEC Chair
Chicago Board Options Exchange Chair and CEO Bill Brodsky
Ex-SEC Commis. Roel Campos
Columbia prof./ex-SEC commis. Harvey Goldschmid
Ariel Investments pres./"GMA" analyst Mellody Hobson
Ex-SEC Div. of Enforcement dir. Bill McLucas
Ex-SEC Commis. Annette Nazareth
Gibson Dunn LLP partner John Olson
Ex-SEC Chair Harvey Pitt
Ex-MA Econ. Affairs Sec. Bob Pozen
FINRA CEO Mary Schapiro
AFL-CIO atty Damon Silvers
AARP Financial VP/ex-SEC official Nancy Smith
Urban Czar
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz (I)
Drug Czar
Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN)
Energy Czar
Billionaire TX oilman T. Boone Pickens
Climate Czar
Audubon Society Chair/ex-EPA Admin. Carol Browner
Ex-VP/ex-Sen. Al Gore (D-TN)*
World Resources Institute Pres. Jonathan Lash
Ex-PA Environment Sec. Kathleen McGinty
AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano (D)
CA Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
Auto Czar
MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)
Intellectual Property Czar
RIAA lobbyist/ex-Clinton aide Michele Ballantyne
Sen. Feinstein aide Jennifer Duck
Ex-first asst. trade rep. for IP Victoria Espinel
NBCU gov't relations chief Alec French
Business Software Alliance VP/ex-Biden aide Neil McBride
Ex-Time Warner atty Shira Perlmutter
American Federation of Musicians' Hal Ponder
Sen. Bayh aide Jayme Roth
Rep. Berman aide Shanna Winters
Small Business Admin.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY)
Peace Corps
Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT)
FAA Admin.
Sen. Reid aide/NV Army Nat'l Guard Dep. Comm. Bob Herbert
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