Pitfall ahead: We'll see if Bush's appointee to head the Federal Trade Commission is as privacy-conscious as the departing chairman, Robert Pitofsky.
And wasn't Blair's appointee to head the Met, Ian (no relation) Blair, eased out after heavy briefing and an intervention by Mayor Boris?
And it could happen soon, when Martin Gruenberg, the only remaining Democratic appointee to head a government financial agency the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation steps down.
If homeland defense is to be organized effectively, Tom Ridge, President Bush's appointee to head the new office, will have to act as Byrnes did -- cracking the whip over existing organizations rather than trying to take over their work.
A7 Welfare Appointee Under Fire Gov. Jeb Bush's appointee to head Florida's troubled child welfare agency, faces criticism over a 1989 religious essay that supported the spanking of children and denounced abortion, parenting by gays and women in the workforce.
Gov. Jeb Bush's appointee to head Florida's troubled child welfare agency is not even on the job yet and already the appointee, a former Oklahoma social services administrator and founder of a conservative Christian group, has come under fire.
Together with Mr. Bennett and John J. DiIulio, Mr. Bush's appointee to head a White House office on faith-based and community initiatives, Mr. Walters wrote a book on crime and drugs in 1997 that advanced the theory that a burgeoning generation of drug-dealing juvenile "superpredators" would sharply increase the level of teenage violence.
For now the focus is on Mr Obama's contentious NLRB appointees, as well as on Richard Cordray, who was given a recess appointment to head the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Center stage to domestic and international policy, it graduates many distinguished government officials, from presidential appointees to heads of state, including former President Bill Clinton.
In the wake of Katrina, Brown was exposed as a political appointee, without proper qualifications to head FEMA in the first place.
