This database was last updated in October 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. There may be new information that is not included here.
Staffers with Resumes
After discovering that the resumes of political appointees include information not revealed on their financial disclosure forms, Property of the People used data from Trump Town and Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain as many staff resumes as possible.
Brett Doyle
U.S. Trade Representative (joined: Aug. 20, 2017)
Senior Director for Congressional Affairs | $112,021 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
George S. Dunlop departed May 20, 2017
Agriculture (joined: Jan. 20, 2017)
Special Assistant | Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary | $133,444 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Bio, via 2016 Conservative Leadership Conference:
The Honorable George S. Dunlop is Chairman and founding partner of Cobis Systems Corporation, a financial services enterprise that provides core banking and mobile payments software systems and infrastructure to large banks, small and micro financial institutions and mobile transaction networks in the Americas and Japan. He has 40-years experience in leading, helping and motivating people and organizations in the private sector and government. From 2001-2009 he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works). He provided executive analysis, development, advocacy, and implementation for policies, plans, and programs related to the Department of the Army’s strategic direction, including oversight for the programs and performance of the Army Corps of Engineers in the United States, Iraq and Afghanistan. He pioneered policy oversight for the development, planning and provisioning of the Army for Stability Operations and Irregular Warfare doctrines. Previously Mr. Dunlop was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment, and for nine years senior executive for the United States Senate, serving as Administrative Assistant to Senator Jesse Helms and Chief of Staff for the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. His private sector experience includes as President and CEO of the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association and Vice President, Century Communications, Inc. He is a life-long entrepreneur and is an equity partner in business ventures involving agriculture, international trade and information technology. Mr. Dunlop is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve and holds graduate and post-graduate degrees from Lehigh University and Duke University.
Former Positions Outside Government
- Barnabas Aid Member of the Board of Directors
- Cobis Systems Corporation Chairman, Board of Directors
Stuart Bryce Dustman departed Jan. 31, 2018
Defense (joined: July 9, 2017)
Special Assistant/Chief Of Staff to the Secretary of the Air Force | $165,300 | Resume »
William Jordan Eason
Office of National Drug Control Policy (joined: Oct. 10, 2017)
Public Affairs Specialist | $79,720 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- CoStar Research Associate II
- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Digital Coordinator
Former Compensation Sources
- CoStar Group Research Associate II Commerical Real Estate research associate.
- Donald J. Trump for President Advance Team
- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Digital Coordinatior at the corporate HQ of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
David G. Ehrhart Nomination or Appointment Failed
General Counsel of the Air Force | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Bio, via United States Air Force:
Brig. Gen. David G. Ehrhart is Staff Judge Advocate, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is the principal legal adviser to the AFMC Commander and staff. The command's 77,000 people manage $47 billion annually in research, development, test and evaluation while providing the acquisition management services and logistics support required to develop, procure and sustain Air Force weapon systems. He oversees more than 330 attorneys and nearly 200 paralegals at 18 locations. His responsibilities included all Air Force litigation before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, having a case value approaching $2 billion. General Ehrhart was born in Topeka, Kan., and raised in Omaha, Neb. He graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975 and first served as a design engineer and contract programmer. His litigation experience includes assignments as a Prosecutor, Circuit Defense Counsel and as a government contracts litigator. He was Commandant of the Air Force Judge Advocate General School and Commander of the Air Force Legal Services Agency. The general has also served as Staff Judge Advocate for a fighter wing, an air logistics center and Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Prior to his current assignment, he was Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law and Operations at Headquarters U.S. Air Force.
Former Positions Outside Government
- ABA Section of Public Contract Law Immediate Past Chair
- American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Public Contract Law Chair
- Falcon Foundation Trustee
- JAG School Foundation Trustee
- Lockheed Martin Associate General Counsel
- Revocable Living Trust Co-Trustee
Former Compensation Sources
- Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. Associate General Counsel
James Claude Epley departed July 21, 2017
Agriculture (joined: March 13, 2017)
Special Assistant, Office of Civil Rights | $131,767 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Bio, via The Silent Majority PAC:
Political strategist and consultant as well as a real estate developer. Served as regional director of the Lowcountry for Newt. Senior strategist and regional director for Upstate South Carolina for Trump Campaign.
Former Positions Outside Government
- Arbor Green, LLC Managing Member
Former Compensation Sources
- Donald J. Trump for President SC Upstate Regional Director @ Director of Advance
Austin Bert Ewell departed Oct. 20, 2018
Deputy Assistant Secretary - Water and Science | $170,000 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- Birch Commons Solar LLC Member
- Bungalows at Fig Garden Member
- Ewell Consulting Group LLC Member
- KAN Ventures Inc. President
- Point Mellerton Ranch, LLC President
- SANBAD Investments, LLC Member
- The Clarksfield Company Inc. President
Former Compensation Sources
- Ewell Conculting Group LLC Account Receivable for work completed prior to employment
- KAN Ventures Inc. Sole Shareholder, Previously Procured Brokerage Compensation
Chai Rachel Feldblum Nomination or Appointment Failed
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Commissioner | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Bio, via U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
Chai Feldblum began her service as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opporunity Commission in April 2010. She was confirmed by the Senate for a second term, which will end on July 1, 2018. During Commissioner Feldblum's service on the Commission, she has focused on all the employment civil rights issues within the jurisdiction of the EEOC. She has focused in particular on the employment of people with disabilities, pregnancy accommodation, sexual orientation and transgender discrimination, harassment prevention, the structure and process of the federal sector complaint system and strategic planning for the Commission. Prior to her appointment to the EEOC, Commissioner Feldblum was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She founded the Law Center's Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, which represented a range of organizational clients focused on social justice. She also founded Workplace Flexibility 2010, a policy enterprise focused on finding common ground between employers and employees on workplace flexibility issues. Commissioner Feldblum played a leading role in helping to draft and negotiate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has also worked to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and was one of the drafters of the original Employment Nondiscrimination Act. Commissioner Feldblum is the first openly lesbian Commissioner of the EEOC and is the fourth person with a disability to serve on the Commission. Commissioner Feldblum clerked for Judge Frank Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun after receiving her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard College.
Darien Bailey Flowers departed April 28, 2019
Transportation (joined: Oct. 30, 2017)
Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Policy Advisor
Former Compensation Sources
Lobbied for
- Apollo Education Group, Inc.
- Cannabis Trade Federation (fra New Federalism Fund)
- Coalition for Patient Vision Care Safety
- Constellis Holdings, LLC
- Edison International
- FedEx Corporation
- Forest County Potawatomi Community
- Foxhill Capital Partners LLC
- Kalorama Group, LLC
- McDonald's Corporation
- NMAC (on behalf of the HIV/STD Partnership)
- National Head Start Association
- NetSpend Corporation
- Patients Rights Action Fund
- TOSHIBA CORPORATION
- The Northeast MAGLEV, LLC
- Walgreen Co.
Kyle Fortson
National Mediation Board (joined: Nov. 2, 2017)
Board Member | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Jacob Jackson French
Agriculture (joined: Jan. 20, 2017)
Staff Assistant, Food Safety | $54,972 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- Dickinson College Library Library Supervisor
- Estabrook's Production Assitant
Troy Christian Fuhriman departed Aug. 17, 2018
Export-Import Bank (joined: July 25, 2017)
Senior Counsel | $124,406-$172,100 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Bio, via Export-Import Bank of the United States:
Prior to joining EXIM, Mr. Fuhriman worked as a professor of law at a flagship national university in South Korea. He managed international affairs for the school for five years. He has taught law, economics, and business courses for universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Fuhriman also served as an attorney in the legal and compliance departments at Deutsche Bank's Wall Street offices, with an AmLaw 100 law firm’s business and finance transactions department in New York City, and at a leading Las Vegas law firm. He has founded, led, and advised various small businesses, including working for more than a decade as an officer of a successful defense-oriented optics R&D company that he co-founded in Redmond, Washington. Troy holds JD, MBA, and BA degrees from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is also a PhD candidate (ABD) in comparative administrative law from Yeungnam University in Gyeongsan City, South Korea. He is licensed to practice law in New York, Nevada, and Washington State.
Former Positions Outside Government
- Children's Dental Village Business Acquisition Consultant (I provided consulting with respect to my brother's buyout of his dental partner's practice.)
- GEM Mission Fund Inc. Director (This is a non-profit entity that is a foundation primarily set up to support religious missionary activities. It just formed in October 2016. It currently holds no assets and conducts no activities.)
- Global Energy Missions, LLC General Counsel & Member with 2% ownership (This is a company that I have been in the process of helping get started up. I've been part of the unpaid, entrepreneurial management team. I resigned my position as unpaid general counsel in early February 2017, prior to starting my U.S. government position. I maintain my membership interest and would like to return to some type of permitted management role.)
- Goldfinch Limited Manager (This is a family owned company that is owned by the filer' spouse and spouse's family. Company has significantly wound down operations but does retain assets, primarily intellectual property. I am an LLC Manager with the company and have been past General Counsel.)
- Kyungpook National University Associate Professor (While maintaining my affiliation as a professor with Kyungpook National University, I have taken unpaid leave from the university in order to work in my present position with EXIM.)
- University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics Visiting Professor (I recurrently worked as a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Economics Summer School.)
- University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Visiting Scholar (I was paid by my employer, Kyungpook National University, while visiting the University of Utah. I was provided and office and other privileges but received no compensation from the University of Utah.)
Former Compensation Sources
- Goldfinch Limited I provided management and general counsel services.
- Kyungpook National University As an Associate Professor of Law, the Director of the Anglo-American Law Center and Administrator for International Affairs, I taught and wrote scholarly articles on American, Korean and international law. I also arranged and participated in research seminars, symposiums and conferences. I also managed, arranged, led and participated in student educational trips and official international educational delegation meetings.
Jason Funes
Interior (joined: May 16, 2017)
Special Assistant | $44,941 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- Hovearound Corporation Sales Rep
- Insperity PEO Services Employee
- Republican State Executive Regional Director
Former Compensation Sources
- Hovearound Corporation Employee
- Insperity PEO Services Employee
- Republican State Executive Employee
Cathy Foster Gautreaux
Transportation (joined: Nov. 13, 2017)
Deputy Administrator | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- HELP Inc. Board Member (Was appointed to HELP, Inc. Board for 2016-17 representing the Louisiana Motor Transport Association. Did not attend any meetings and ultimately resigned.)
- Louisiana Motor Transport Assn., Inc. Exeuctive Director
Former Compensation Sources
- Louisiana Motor Transport Association Executive Director - served as LMTA's primary representative to elected and appointed state officials, other industry associations, allied suppliers and the general public
Jeffrey Gerrish
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
Former Compensation Sources
- CF Industries, Inc. Legal services
- Centaurus Capital, L.P. Legal services
- Daimler AG Legal services
- Endo Health Solutions Inc. Legal services
- HFT Holdings, Inc. Legal services
- Hanwha SolarOne USA, Inc. Legal services
- Indo-US MIM Tec Pvt. Ltd. Legal services
- Middleby Corporation Legal services
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Legal services
- Tensar International Corporation Legal services
- Third Avenue Management LLC Legal services
- United States Steel Corporation Legal services
Lobbied for
Leila Getto
Interior (joined: June 25, 2017)
Deputy Director, Office of Scheduling and Advance | $130,692 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- US Chamber of Commerce Director, Institute for 21st Century Energy
Joseph Lindberg Gilson
Agriculture (joined: Jan. 22, 2017)
Confidential Assistant, Rural Development | Staff Assistant | $54,972 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Compensation Sources
- LS2group personal services
Jeffrey W. Goettman
Export-Import Bank (joined: Nov. 26, 2017)
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer | Resume »
Abe E. Goldschmidt
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Chief Strategist | $131,767 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Abe E. Goldschmidt, a special assistant to the president working in the newly created Office of American Innovation, worked for Trump’s campaign in the fall while simultaneously working as an assistant prosecutor for the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office. He was a White House intern in 2007 and later was a research analyst for Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential run and a confidential assistant for the Department of Homeland Security, according to his LinkedIn profile. Goldschmidt worked for the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office from August 2012 to November 2016 — ProPublica
Former Positions Outside Government
- State Attorney's Office Assistant State Attorney
- Trump for America Deputy Director
Former Compensation Sources
- State Attorney's Office Assistant State Attorney (Prosecutor)
- Trump for America Deputy Director of Presidential Appointments for Presidential Transition.
Sarah Catherine Goodin departed March 3, 2017
Export-Import Bank (joined: Feb. 27, 2017)
Advisor to the White House Liaison | Financial disclosure not required because of limited term of service | Resume »
Douglas F. Graham
Transportation (joined: Jan. 25, 2017)
Speechwriter | $130,692 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- NCI Inc Staff Writer
- Strategic Operational Solutions Staff Writer contractor for PEO Soldier
Former Compensation Sources
- NCI Inc Staff Writer
- Strategic Operational Solutions Staff Writer
Christopher S. Gray
Senior Advisor for Governmental Affairs | $119,489 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Former Positions Outside Government
- PSECU Government Relations
Heidi Green departed June 1, 2018
Agriculture (joined: Jan. 30, 2017)
Senior Advisor | Chief of Staff | $179,700 | Financial Disclosure » | Resume »
Bio, via LinkedIn:
Over 15 years of experience in public relations, government affairs, marketing, and communications. Demonstrated ability to create strategic plans, communicate a vision and execute to results. Energetic, result-driven management style!
Former Positions Outside Government
- Deloitte Services Client Relationship Executive