Question: Eric Schultz is a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and is the founder of Schultz Group, after which White House Deputy Press Secretary, replaced Jay Carney to become White House Press Secretary, Schultz was appointed White House Deputy Press Secretary?

full_context: Document 1: Lindsay Walters: Lindsay Walters is an American political aide, currently serving as White House Deputy Press Secretary. Until his resignation, she had been adviser to incoming press secretary Sean Spicer. Before this appointment, she had been National Spokesperson at Republican National Committee for a year and two-thirds.
Document 2: Mike Donilon: Mike Donilon, a lawyer and political campaign consultant, is a partner at AKPD Message and Media. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as Counselor to the Vice President under Vice President Joe Biden. Prior to his White House appointment, Donilon worked with the vice-presidential candidate to help him prepare for the debates and also as a traveling advisor. He has been an advisor and consultant to Vice President Biden since 1981.
Document 3: Rick Dearborn: Rick A. Dearborn is currently the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Intergovernmental Affairs and Implementation and formerly the executive director of Donald Trump's presidential transition team. Dearborn has worked for six U.S. Senators, including two members of Senate leadership, and spent more than 25 years working on Capitol Hill. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate to become the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional Affairs, where he worked with the Senate, House and Tribal Governments on achieving President George W. Bush's Energy Agenda. Rick Dearborn was a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team, a group of advisors tasked with recommending presidential appointments for the incoming administration. Dearborn had previously worked as the Chief of Staff for Senator Jeff Sessions from December 2004 until 2016. Dearborn, along with Senior Advisor Stephen Miller, is one of two former senior Sessions staffers to have a senior role in Trump's White House.
Document 4: Claire Shipman: Claire Shipman is an American television journalist, currently the senior national correspondent for ABC's "Good Morning America". She also blogs at the website "True/Slant". She is married to Jay Carney, President Barack Obama's former White House Press Secretary.
Document 5: Brett H. McGurk: Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and diplomat who was appointed by President Barack Obama on 23 October 2015 as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He replaced General John R. Allen to whom he had been a deputy since 16 September 2014. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, at the U.S. Department of State, and from October 2014 through January 2016 led 14 months of secret negotiations with Iran that led to a prisoner swap and release of four Americans from Evin Prison in Tehran, including the Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian. This assignment, among others, reinforced McGurk's "reputation as a doer", according to the NY Times. He earlier served under President George W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan, and under President Obama as Special Advisor to the U.S. National Security Council and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. An attorney by training, Mr. McGurk served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court during the Court's 2001 October Term. On January 19, 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer announced that the incoming administration would retain McGurk in his role leading the counter-ISIS campaign.
Document 6: Josh Earnest: Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest (born January 22, 1975) is an American political aide who served as White House press secretary under President Barack Obama, from 2014 to 2017. He succeeded Jay Carney as Obama's press secretary, in 2014, and was succeeded by President Donald Trump's first Presidential press secretary, Sean Spicer.
Document 7: 2014 State of the Union Address: The 2014 State of the Union Address was given by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was addressed to the 113th United States Congress, and the Senate was present. According to tradition, House Speaker John Boehner invited the president on December 13 to address a joint session of Congress. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed the president's attendance later that day.
Document 8: Paul Ryan: Paul Davis Ryan Jr. ( ; born January 29, 1970) is an American politician who is the 54th and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, running alongside former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, in the 2012 election.
Document 9: Kristie Canegallo: Kristie Canegallo was the Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation for U.S. President Barack Obama. Her responsibilities included the execution of major projects such as health care reform, education, and the war in Afghanistan.
Document 10: Jim Kennedy (media executive): Kennedy began his career in public service, working in the Clinton White House as Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy Press Secretary, and Senior Advisor to the White House Counsel. He has also served as head of communications to Vice President Al Gore, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Joe Lieberman, and the Clinton Foundation.
Document 11: Ben Scott (policy advisor): Ben Scott is a Senior Advisor to the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin. Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy. In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he worked to help steward the 21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development. Prior to joining the State Department, for six years he led the Washington office for Free Press, a non-profit organization dealing exclusively with media and communications policy. As policy director for Free Press, he headed a team of lawyers, researchers, and advocates, and directed a public interest policy agenda to expand affordable access to an open Internet and to foster more public service journalism. He was frequently called as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress. Before joining Free Press, he worked as a legislative aide handling telecommunications policy for then-Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois. Ben is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He is the author of several scholarly articles on American journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co-editor of two books.
Document 12: April Ryan: April Danielle Ryan (born September 5, 1967) is an American journalist and author. Since 1997, she has served as a White House correspondent and is the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks. She is among the best known of the White House press corps. In 2017, she joined CNN as a political analyst. In May 2017, the National Association of Black Journalists named Ryan as the "Journalist of the Year".
Document 13: Joe Lockhart: Joseph Patrick "Joe" Lockhart (born July 13, 1959) is a spokesman and communications consultant, best known for being the White House Press Secretary from October 5, 1998 to September 29, 2000, during the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. He worked as press secretary for several Democratic politicians, including Walter Mondale, Paul Simon, and Michael Dukakis; he was an advisor to John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign. He subsequently founded and became managing director of the communications consulting firm Glover Park Group, a position he held until June 2011, when Facebook recruited him to become its company spokesman. In 2013, he rejoined Glover Park Group.
Document 14: Russell Schriefer: Russell J. Schriefer is an American political strategist and media consultant who has worked on six out of the last seven presidential campaigns. In 2012, he was a senior advisor and media consultant on Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
Document 15: Eric Schultz: Eric Schultz is a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and is the founder of Schultz Group. Schultz is a former White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary and special assistant to President Obama. Recognized by "Politico" as the strategist “White House officials turn to in a crisis to handle communications,” Schultz was originally hired at the White House in 2011 to respond to Congressional oversight investigations. After White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest replaced Jay Carney to become White House Press Secretary, Schultz was appointed White House Deputy Press Secretary. In this role, Schultz often diffuses "tensions with humor. But he can be relentless in pushing his message in both public and private conversations.” Former White House Communications Director Jen Psaki compared Schultz to fictional crisis manager Olivia Pope, "he's the person you want next to you in a foxhole when there's a crisis." At the end of President Obama's second term, former White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett said of Schultz, “We’ve all grown to rely on his wise counsel" and that the President "trusts his sound judgement."
ground_truth: Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest