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Melody Barnes

Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2009
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Heather Higginbottom
Preceded by	Karl Zinsmeister

Born	1964 Richmond, Virginia
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Marland Buckner Jr.

Melody C. Barnes (b. April 29, 1964, Richmond, Virginia)^[1] was chosen by President Barack Obama to serve as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council for his administration ^[2]. Obama announced her appointment on November 24, 2008. She was previously Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress^[3] and led the CAP's Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative. She left the CAP in June of 2008 to work on the Obama campaign. She also served on the advisory board for the Obama presidential transition team,^[4].

She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Constitution Project. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with honors in History in 1986.^[5] As an undergraduate, she was a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity and a Sister of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

From 1995 to 2003 Barnes served as chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[5]

She previously served as the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as assistant counsel to the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties^[5], where she worked with Congress to pass the Voting Rights Improvement Act of 1992. She was a board member of EMILY's List.

Barnes began her career as an attorney with Shearman & Sterling.^[5]

Her mother is a teacher with a Master's degree in Education and her father is a retired member of the United States Army.

Melody Barnes married Marland Buckner Jr. on June 13, 2009. ^[6]

References

^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/politics/25web-barnes.html Retrieved on 2009-2-25.
^ "Geithner, Summers among key economic team members announced today". http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/geithner_summers_among_key_economic_team_members_announced_today/. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
^ "What a Progressive President Might Say". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901125.html. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
^ "Obama Names Transition Team". http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/11/05/obama-names-transition-team.html. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Melody Barnes". http://campusprogress.org/events/2020/melody-barnes. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
^ NYT wedding announcement

Barack Obama's Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff	Rahm Emanuel	2009–	National Security Advisor	Jim Jones	2009–
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Mona Sutphen	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor	Thomas E. Donilon	2009–
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations	Jim Messina	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan	Douglas Lute^†	2009–
Senior Advisor to the President	David Axelrod	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications	Ben Rhodes	2009–
Senior Advisor to the President	Peter Rouse	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	John O. Brennan	2009–
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement	Valerie Jarrett	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff White House Communications Director	Denis McDonough Daniel Pfeiffer	2009- 2009-
Director of Public Engagement	Christina Tchen	2009–	Deputy White House Communications Director	Jennifer Psaki	2009–
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Cecilia Muñoz	2009–	White House Press Secretary	Robert Gibbs	2009–
Director, National Economic Council	Lawrence Summers	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary	Bill Burton	2009–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Diana Farrell	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary		–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Jason Furman	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary	Josh Earnest	2009–
Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Paul Volcker	2009–	Director of Speechwriting	Jon Favreau	2009–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer	2009–	White House Counsel	Robert Bauer	2009–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors and Staff Director of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Austan Goolsbee	2009–	Deputy White House Counsel Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Phil Schiliro	2009–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski	2009–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter R. Orszag	2009–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^†	2009–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–	Director, Office of Political Affairs Chief Technology Officer	Patrick Gaspard Aneesh Chopra	2009– 2009–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Rob Nabors	2009–	Chief Information Officer	Vivek Kundra	2009–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk	2009–	Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Don Gips	2009–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes	2009–	Director of Scheduling and Advance	Alyssa Mastromonaco	2009–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom	2009–	Director, White House Military Office	vacant	2009–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois	2009–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu	2009–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy DeParle	2009–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith	2009–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown	2009–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–	Director, Office of Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley	2009–
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal	2009–	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez	2009–
Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers	Edward B. Montgomery	2009–	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love	2009–
Director, Council on Environmental Quality	Nancy Sutley	2009–	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson	2009–
Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Jeffrey Crowley	2009–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske	2009–	Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Susan Sher	2009–
Deputy Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	A. Thomas McLellan*	2009–	White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers	2009–
Director, Office of Urban Affairs Policy	Adolfo Carrión, Jr.	2009–	Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

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

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