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Officials Guiding the Process Are Named

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Staff writer Ann Scott Tyson contributed to this report.

The Names

Agency review personnel named yesterday by the Obama transition team:

CO-CHAIRS

Melody Barnes: Former executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress and chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Lisa Brown: On leave from her post as executive director of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. Counsel to Vice President Al Gore.

Don Gips: On leave from his position as group vice president of Corporate Strategy and Development at Level 3 Communications. Chief domestic policy adviser to Gore.

WORKING GROUP MEMBERS

AND THEIR TRANSITION ROLES

Seth Harris: Labor, education and transportation agencies. Professor and director of labor and employment law programs at New York Law School. Former counselor to Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman.

David J. Hayes: Energy and natural resources agencies. Former global chair of the Environment, Land and Resources Department at the law firm Latham & Watkins.

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