Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process

About the Commission

The Commission was created to:

Work with the White House, Congress and other interested parties to help identify and adopt measures to streamline and expedite the vetting process without sacrificing high standards of quality for government leaders. The goal is to assure that Presidents can more quickly fill key position particularly during the first six months of a new administration with the qualified people necessary to serve the public interest, while reducing the burden and intrusiveness on nominees. 

Commission Members:

Bill Frist, Co-Chair; former Senate Majority Leader
Clay Johnson, Co-Chair; former Director of the Presidential Personnel Office and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Mack McLarty, Co-Chair; former White House Chief of Staff
Chuck Robb, Co-Chair; former U.S. Senator
Len Downie, former Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Bob Edgar, President and CEO, Common Cause
Mickey Edwards, former Member of Congress and Director of the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership
Susan Eisenhower, President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. and Chair Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fletcher Asset Management, Inc.
Tom Korologos, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad
Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics
Paul Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, New York University
John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
Roger Sant, Member, Smithsonian Board of Trustees and Chairman Emeritus, AES Corporation
Melanie Sloan, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, CREW
Margaret Spellings, former Secretary of Education
Terry Sullivan, Campbell Fellow in National Affairs at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nancy Tate, Executive Director, League of Women Voters of the United States
William Webster, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Walter Isaacson, Ex-Officio Member; President, The Aspen Institute
Judith Rodin, Ex-Officio Member; President, The Rockefeller Foundation