EXECUTIVE BRANCH
1. Wendy Lee Gramm
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(CFTC) Chairperson, 1988-93. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
CFTC supervises all US commodities
trading, the same way SEC oversees the stock markets. Prior to the CFTC
post, Mrs. Gramm served as Director,
Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission. Wellesley College,
BA
in Economics (1966), Northwestern,
Ph D in Economics (1971). Both her paternal and maternal grandparents
migrated
to Hawaii in the early part of
the 20th century. Her father, Joshua Lee, trained as an engineer,
returned to Hawaii to
work at a sugar factory in management
position. Mrs. Gramm was born in 1945, married Senator Phil Gramm
(R-TX)
in 1970.
2. Shinae Chun
Director, Bureau of Women, Department
of Labor. Mrs. Chun was nominated to the post by President George
W.
Bush and will start her new position
on July 2, 2001. She will be working closely with Elain Chao, the new Secretary
of Labor. Prior to the Directorship,
Mrs. Chun was the Managing Director of the ITR Corporation in Chicago and
was
Director of the Illinois Department
of Labor from 1991 to 1999. She was Director of the Illinois Department
of Financial
Institutions from 1989
to 1991 and was Special Assistant to the Governor of Illinois for Asian
American Affairs
from 1984 to 1989. She is
a graduate (1965) of Ewha Women's University in Seoul, and received a Master's
degree
from Northwestern University.
Mrs. Chun was born in 1943 and is married to Dr. Kyong Chul Chun, a senior
scientist
at the Argonne National Laboratory.
3. Harold Hongju Koh
Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1998 - 2000). Koh formerly served
as the
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe
Smith Professor of International Law and Director of the Orville H. Schell,
Jr. Center
for International Human Rights
at Yale Law School. Koh earned a B.A. from Harvard University in
1975, an Honours
B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford
University in 1977, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980. He
is married
to Mary-Christy Fisher, an attorney.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
1. Jay Kim
Former Congressman (R-CA) from
Orange county, California from 1992 to 1999. First ever Korean-American
to be
elected to the US House of Representatives.
His political career ended in 1999 as a result of being found guilty of
several campaign finance law violations.