# List of Donald Trump nominees who have withdrawn

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The Trump administration proposed a number of nominees to appointed positions who were rejected by the Senate or withdrew voluntarily.

## Executive Office of the President

| Office | Nominee | Experience | Announced | Withdrawn |
| White House Director of Communications | Jason Miller | Vice-President at Jamestown Associates | December 22, 2016 | December 24, 2016 |
| Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council | Monica Crowley | Political commentator | December 15, 2016 | January 16, 2017 |
| Chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality | Kathleen Hartnett White | Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation | October 12, 2017 | February 5, 2018 |
| Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy | Tom Marino | Representative from Pennsylvania | September 5, 2017 | October 17, 2017 |

## Department of Agriculture

| Office | Nominee | Experience | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Under Secretary of Agriculture (Research, Education, and Economics) | Sam Clovis | Senior White House adviser to the senior White House Adviser to the USDA | July 25, 2017 | November 2, 2017 |

## Department of Commerce

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Deputy Secretary of Commerce | Todd Ricketts | November 30, 2016 | April 19, 2017 |
| Under Secretary of Commerce (Oceans and Atmosphere) | Barry Lee Myers | October 12, 2017 | November 20, 2019 |
| Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Export Enforcement) | Jeffrey Nadaner | February 5, 2018 | June 12, 2019 |

## Department of Defense

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Secretary of Defense | Patrick M. Shanahan | May 9, 2019 | June 18, 2019 |
| Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs | Dean Winslow | September 2017 | January 2018 |
| General Counsel of the Air Force | David Ehrhart | June 23, 2017 | September 29, 2017 |
| Secretary of the Army | Vincent Viola | December 19, 2016 | February 3, 2017 |
| Secretary of the Army | Mark E. Green | April 7, 2017 | May 5, 2017 |
| General Counsel of the Army | Ryan Dean Newman | March 21, 2017 | September 29, 2017 |
| Secretary of the Navy | Philip Bilden | January 25, 2017 | February 26, 2017 |
| Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) | Elaine McCusker | November 6, 2019 | March 2, 2020 |
| Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness | Anthony Kurta | July 19, 2017 | September 28, 2018 |
| Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness | J. David Patterson | January 6, 2020 | February 12, 2020 |
| Under Secretary of the Air Force | Shon J. Manasco | April 24, 2020 | December 30, 2020 |

## Department of Education

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Assistant Secretary of Education (Career, Technical, and Adult Education) | Tim Kelly | 27 August 2017 | 18 November 2017 |

## Department of Energy

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| General Counsel of Energy | David Jonas | May 23, 2017 | January 3, 2018 |

## Department of Health and Human Services

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Director of the Indian Health Service | Robert M. Weaver | October 6, 2017 | February 21, 2018 |
| Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | David Weldon | November 2024 | March 2025 |

## Department of Homeland Security

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Secretary of Homeland Security | Chad Wolf | August 25, 2020 | January 6, 2021 |
| Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Partnership & Engagement) | David Clarke | May 17, 2017 | June 17, 2017 |
| Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency | Jeffrey Byard | May 13, 2019 | September 19, 2019 |
| Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency | Daniel Alan Craig | July 25, 2017 | September 13, 2017 |
| Chief Financial Officer of Homeland Security | Charles E. Cook III | February 2, 2018 | June 7, 2018 |
| Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Thomas Homan | November 14, 2017 | May 15, 2018 |
| Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Ronald Vitiello | August 6, 2018 | April 4, 2019 |

## Department of the Interior

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Solicitor of the Interior | Ryan D. Nelson | July 31, 2017 | May 10, 2018, and nominated instead for Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit |
| Director of the Office of Surface Mining | J. Steven Gardner | January 8, 2018 | September 12, 2018 |
| Director of the Bureau of Land Management | William Perry Pendley | June 26, 2020 | September 8, 2020 |

## Department of Justice

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Associate Attorney General | Jessie K. Liu | March 5, 2019 | March 28, 2019 |
| Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives | Chuck Canterbury | May 24, 2019 | May 19, 2020 |
| Attorney General | Matt Gaetz | November, 2024 | November 21, 2024 |

## Department of Labor

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Secretary of Labor | Andrew Puzder | December 8, 2016 | February 15, 2017 |
| Assistant Secretary of Labor (Occupational Safety and Health) | Scott Mugno | November 1, 2017 | May 23, 2019 |

## Department of State

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Under Secretary of State (Management) | Eric Ueland | June 9, 2017 | June 18, 2018 |
| Under Secretary of State (Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights) | Eric Ueland | July 29, 2020 | December 30, 2020 |
| Director General of the United States Foreign Service | Stephen Akard | October 10, 2017 | March 20, 2018 and nominated instead for Director of the Office of Foreign Missions |
| Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs) | Susan Thornton | December 19, 2017 | August 16, 2018 |
| Assistant Secretary of State (South and Central Asian Affairs) | Robert Williams | December 12, 2018 | April 11, 2019 |
| Ambassador to Australia | Harry B. Harris Jr. | February 9, 2018 | May 23, 2018 and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to South Korea |
| Ambassador to the Bahamas | Doug Manchester | May 15, 2017 | November 13, 2019 |
| Ambassador to Belgium | Jamie McCourt | June 22, 2017 | August 2, 2017 and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to France |
| Ambassador to Chile | Andrew Gellert | January 4, 2018 | August 16, 2018 |
| Ambassador to Estonia | Edward Masso | September 2, 2017 | May 24, 2018 |
| Ambassador to Singapore | K. T. McFarland | May 19, 2017 | January 2018 |
| Ambassador to South Korea | Victor Cha | December 2017 | January 2018 |
| Ambassador to the United Nations | Heather Nauert | December 2018 | February 2019 |
| Representative of the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations | Jennifer Barber | December 9, 2019 | September 8, 2020 |
| Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly | Jennifer Barber | December 9, 2019 | September 8, 2020 |
| Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations (Special Political Affairs) | Austin M. Smith | August 2018 | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2019, replaced by nomination of Alex Wong in February 2020 |
| Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly | Austin M. Smith | August 2018 | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2019, replaced by nomination of Alex Wong in February 2020 |
| Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | Pamela Bates | September 2018 | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2020, replaced by nomination of Manisha Singh in April 2020 |

## Department of Transportation

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration | Paul Trombino III | September 8, 2017 | December 8, 2017 |
| Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | Heidi King | April 5, 2018 | September 19, 2019 |

## Department of the Treasury

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | Jim Donovan | March 14, 2017 | May 19, 2017 |
| Under Secretary of the Treasury (Terrorism and Financial Crimes) | Jessie K. Liu | January 6, 2020 | February 12, 2020 |
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (International Finance) | Adam Lerrick | March 14, 2017 | May 10, 2018 |
| Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | James Clinger | June 16, 2017 | July 12, 2017 |

## Department of Veterans Affairs

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Ronny Jackson | March 28, 2018 | June 20, 2018 |

## Central Intelligence Agency

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency | Christopher Sharpley | September 5, 2017 | July 23, 2018 |

## Environmental Protection Agency

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Toxic Substances | Michael Dourson | July 2017 | December 13, 2017 |

## Office of the Director of National Intelligence

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Director of National Intelligence | John Ratcliffe | July 28, 2019 | August 2, 2019 |

## Independent agencies

| Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Director of the Office of Personnel Management | George Nesterczuk | May 24, 2017 | August 2, 2017 |
| President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States | Scott Garrett | Rejected by Senate Banking Committee vote | |
| First Vice President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States | Kimberly A. Reed | September 15, 2017 | June 20, 2018, and nominated instead for President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
| Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Africa) | Johnathan Miller | January 12, 2018 | March 20, 2018 |
| Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance) | Mark Montgomery | June 20, 2018 | November 15, 2018 |
| Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Asia) | Mina Chang | September 13, 2018 | September 9, 2019 |
| Member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service | Calvin R. Tucker | October 26, 2017 | March 5, 2019 |
| Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board | Andrew Maunz | March 5, 2018 | February 12, 2019 |
| Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission | Ann Marie Buerkle | July 24, 2017 | June 18, 2019 |
| Inspector General of the Tennessee Valley Authority | Katherine A. Crytzer | April 3, 2020 | September 22, 2020, and nominated instead for District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee |

## Federal judges

| Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
| Damien Schiff | May 8, 2017 | January 3, 2018 |
| Thomas Alvin Farr | July 13, 2017 | January 3, 2019 |
| Ryan Bounds | September 7, 2017 | July 2018 |
| Jeff Mateer | September 7, 2017 | December 2017 |
| Matthew S. Petersen | September 7, 2017 | December 16, 2017 |
| Brett Talley | September 7, 2017 | December 13, 2017 |
| Gordon P. Giampietro | December 20, 2017 | January 3, 2019 |
| Maureen Ohlhausen | January 23, 2018 | December 2018 |
| Jon Katchen | April 10, 2018 | August 2018 |
| John M. O'Connor | April 10, 2018 | April 12, 2019 |
| Thomas Marcelle | November 13, 2018 | September 19, 2019 |
| Michael S. Bogren | March 11, 2019 | June 26, 2019 |
| Kevin R. Sweazea | June 12, 2019 | January 3, 2020 |
| Halil Suleyman Ozerden | June 24, 2019 | January 3, 2020 |
| Daniel Z. Epstein | June 19, 2019 | December 17, 2020, and nominated instead for Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States |