White House Deputy Chief of Staff

The White House Deputy Chief of Staff is officially the top aide to the White House Chief of Staff, who is the senior aide to the President of the United States. The Deputy Chief of Staff usually has an office in the West Wing and is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the White House bureaucracy, as well as such other duties as the Chief of Staff assigns to him or her. In some administrations, there are multiple deputy chiefs with different duties.

In the Obama Administration, there are two Deputy Chiefs of Staff:

• Anita Decker Breckenridge, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
• Kristie Canegallo, Deputy Chief of Staff for Implementation^[1][2]

Six Deputy Chiefs of Staff have subsequently been appointed White House Chief of Staff: Dick Cheney, Ken Duberstein, Andrew Card, Erskine Bowles, John Podesta, and Joshua Bolten.

List of White House Deputy Chiefs of Staff

• Gerald Ford Administration
  • Dick Cheney, Deputy Chief of Staff^[3]
• Jimmy Carter Administration
  • Landon Butler, Deputy Chief of Staff^[4]
• Ronald Reagan Administration
  • Michael Deaver, Deputy Chief of Staff, 1981–1985
  • Ken Duberstein, Deputy Chief of Staff, 1987–1988
  • M.B. Oglesby, Jr., Deputy Chief of Staff, 1988–1989
• George H. W. Bush Administration
  • Andrew Card, Deputy Chief of Staff, 1989–1992
  • Henson Moore, Deputy Chief of Staff, 1992
  • Robert Zoellick, Deputy Chief of Staff, 1992–1993
• Bill Clinton Administration
  • Mark Gearan, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 1993
  • Roy Neel, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 1994
  • Harold M. Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 1993–1996
  • Philip Lader, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 1993–1994
  • Erskine Bowles, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 1994–1996
  • Evelyn S. Lieberman, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 1996
  • John Podesta, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 1997–1998
  • Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 1997–1998
  • Maria Echaveste, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 1998–2001
  • Steve Ricchetti, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 1998–2001
• George W. Bush Administration
  • Joe Hagin, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 2001–2008
  • Joshua Bolten, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2001–2003
  • Harriet Miers, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2003–2005
  • Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2005–2007
  • Joel Kaplan, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2006–2009
  • Blake Gottesman, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 2008–2009
• Barack Obama Administration
  • Jim Messina, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 2009–2011
  • Mona Sutphen, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2009–2011
  • Nancy-Ann DeParle, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2011–2013
  • Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 2011–2014
  • Mark B. Childress, Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning, 2012–2014
  • Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, 2013–2015
  • Anita Decker Breckenridge, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, 2014–present
  • Kristie Canegallo, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Implementation, 2014–present

In popular culture

• In the NBC television drama The West Wing, the position of White House Deputy Chief of Staff (For Strategic Planning) was held by Josh Lyman in the fictional Bartlet administration and Sam Seaborn in the fictional Santos administration.

• Chad Lowe portrayed White House Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock, serving under White House Chief of Staff Tom Lennox and President Wayne Palmer on the television drama 24.

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