He Did It Again!

This makes number three. This is the third trans person that President Obama has appointed to high office.

Obama names trans attorney to presidential commission
Washington Blade
By Chris Johnson
June 8, 2015

The White House announced on Monday President Obama has appointed civil rights attorney and long-time LGBT advocate Shannon Minter to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, making him among the senior transgender appointees in the Obama administration.

Obama named Minter to the position in a statement where also he declared his intent to nominate individuals for various ambassadorial appointments.

“I am confident that these experienced and hardworking individuals will help us tackle the important challenges facing America, and I am grateful for their service,” Obama said. “I look forward to working with them.”
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According to the White House website, the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships selects individuals for fellowships to work at the highest levels of federal government. The fellowships are last around a year and consist of working as full-time, paid fellows to senior White House Staff, Cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking government officials. Another member of the commission is Republican Ted Olson, who was a lead attorney in federal litigation that overturned California’s Prop 8 and Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage. 

President Obama also appointed Dylan Orr as special assistant in the Labor Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy and Amanda Simpson was first hired as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce but is now the executive director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives.