The White House Fellows program is a federal fellowship program established via Executive Order by President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson in October 1964, based upon a suggestion from

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, then the president of Carnegie Corporation, who would eventually become the 6th Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The mission of the program is "to give the Fellows first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the

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and to increase their sense of participation in national affairs." President Johnson expected the Fellows to 'repay that privilege' when they left by 'continuing to work as private citizens on their public agendas.' He hoped that the Fellows would contribute to the nation as future leaders. White House Fellows typically spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House Staff, the Vice President, Cabinet Secretaries and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with renowned leaders from the private and public sectors, and trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis. The selection process is very competitive for the 11 to 19 fellowships. The White House Fellows Program office processes the applications and former Fellows screen the applications to identify the most promising candidates. Approximately 100 of the most qualified applicants are selected to be interviewed by eight to ten regional panels, which are composed of prominent local citizens. Based on the results of the interviews, the regional panels and the Director select approximately thirty candidates to proceed as National finalists. The President's Commission on White House Fellowships then interviews the thirty candidates and recommends 11–19 outstanding candidates to the President for a one-year appointment as Fellows. The prestige of the Fellowship is such that it has been valued more highly than distinguished scholarships such as the

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and

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. In fact, nearly a third of White House Fellows were already recipients of competitive scholarships.

Demographics

White House fellows come from a variety of educational backgrounds, though all Fellows hold undergraduate degrees. Of the 816 Americans who have been selected as White House Fellows, 763 are currently living (as of November 2019). Over the 55-year history of the program, the largest proportion of minority groups selected as Fellows have been: African-Americans, followed by Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans. A total of 220 women have been selected as White House Fellows, with the proportion of women varying from a low of 7% (during the Johnson administration) to a high of 43% during the Obama administration. The White House Fellows Class of 1996–97 is the only Class so far that has been mostly women (the class included 10 women and 8 men). In 1975, Patricia A. Davis of Staunton, VA was appointed as a White House Fellow from a pool of 2307 applicants and was the only Black Fellow and one of only two females selected. The 10 universities most frequently attended by White House Fellows are, in order: Harvard, Stanford, West Point, Oxford, MIT, Columbia, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy, Berkeley, and Yale. The average age of a Fellow is typically 32 to 34 years old. Though fellows come from all regions of the United States, the majority of Fellows have come from the north east region of the country. The 2019–2020 class, for example, had 15 Fellows including four physicians, six military officers (including a Navy SEAL), a police officer, a technology executive, a lawyer, a professor of electrical engineering, and a charter school leader. Three Fellows of the 2019–2020 class were women and five were people of color or Hispanic heritage. They represented eleven different states, including: New York, Kentucky, South Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Ohio. Of all Fellows:

Undergraduate education

* Earned bachelor's degree: 100% * Attended an Ivy League University: 18% * Attended a Military Academy: 19% * Graduated Phi Beta Kappa: 12% * Rhodes Scholar: 4%

Graduate education

* Earned a graduate degree of any kind: 96% * Earned a graduate degree from an Ivy League University: 41%

Notable alumni

* 1965–1966 Tom Johnson; Former Chairman/CEO, CNN, Former Publisher Los Angeles Times * 1966–1967

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; Former Chairman, NBC * 1966–1967

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; Senior Vice President,

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; chairman, Federation of American Hospitals; Member of Bipartisan Commission on Medicare under President Bill Clinton; Member of

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; former National Chairman, Easter Seals * 1967–1968 Preston Townley; former CEO, The Conference Board, former Dean, Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota * 1967–1968

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; President, United Nations Foundation; Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; former

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, Colorado * 1968–1969 Robert D. Haas; Chairman/CEO, Levi Strauss & Company * 1969–1970 Michael H. Armacost;

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, Asia–Pacific Research Center,

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; former president, The Brookings Institution; former

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and the Philippines; former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs * 1969–1970

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; former

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* 1970–1971 Dana G. Mead; former Chairman/CEO, Tenneco, Inc. * 1971–1972

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; chairman and CEO,

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; former

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to President

; former Counselor to the U.S. Department of State; former Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

; former Military Assistant to Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft * 1971–1972 Deanell R. Tacha;

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, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit * 1972–1973

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; President, Nogales Partners; former CEO, United Press International; former president, Univision * 1972–1973 Joseph P. Carroll; founding President – Secrétaire Perpetuel,

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; founding President – Secrétaire Perpetuel,

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; Emeritus Member- Board of Visitors, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University; Philanthropist * 1972–1973

Colin Powell Colin Luther Powell ( ; April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African ...

; former Secretary, U.S. Department of State; former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; founding chairman, America's Promise; General, U.S. Army (Ret) * 1973–1974

Doris M. Meissner Doris Marie Meissner (born November 3, 1941) is a former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the agency previously responsible for immigration enforcement in the United States. She headed the INS from October 18, 1993 ...

; Senior Fellow,

Migration Policy Institute The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is a non-partisan think tank established in 2001 by Kathleen Newland and Demetrios G. Papademetriou. The Migration Policy Institute is supportive of Liberalism, liberal immigration policies. About The Migrati ...

; former Commissioner,

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* 1973–1974 Peter M. Dawkins; Vice Chairman, CitiGroup Private Bank; former Chairman/CEO of Primerica Financial Services, Inc.;

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winner; Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret) * 1973–1974

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; President,

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; former vice president,

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; * 1973–1974 Dr

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; Leukemia researcher; Athlete * 1974–1975

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; Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Former Assistant for

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to President

. * 1974–1975 Garrey E. Carruthers; President/CEO,

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; former Governor of New Mexico * 1975–1976

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; former Chairman/CEO, State Street Bank & Trust Company * 1975–1976

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; Chairman/CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates; General, U.S. Army (Ret); former

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, Europe * 1975–1976

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;

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, U.S. Navy (Ret); former

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; former president,

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; former Commander in Chief,

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* 1976–1977

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; former Chief Aide and Senior Counselor to former California Governor

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; former Congresswoman, California * 1976–1977

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;

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* 1977–1978

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; Partner,

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; former City Solicitor, City of Philadelphia; former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development * 1979–1980 Lincoln Caplan; author, journalist, Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School * 1979–1980 Victoria Chan-Palay; neuroscientist, University of Zurich Medical School * 1979–1980

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; former executive director, National Commission for Prevention of Child Abuse * 1979–1980

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; President/CEO of

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; former National Executive Director of the

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;

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, U.S. Navy (Ret) * 1980–1981

Joan Abrahamson Joan Abrahamson (born Los Angeles, California, United States) is an attorney, artist, former government appointee, and activist who is founder and president of the Jefferson Institute. She also worked in international security and economics, healt ...

; President,

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; President,

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* 1980–1981 Thomas J. Campbell; former

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, California * 1980–1981

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;

, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit * 1981–1982

Paul V. Applegarth Paul Vollmer Applegarth (born April 21, 1946) is an American business executive, financial consultant, banker, and lawyer. He was the first chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, President George W. Bush's flagship proj ...

; CEO, Value Enhancement International; former Founding Managing Director, The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund; former Founding CEO, The Millennium Challenge Corporation (U.S. government corporation) * 1981–1982 Joe L. Barton;

, Texas * 1981–1982

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; former CEO,

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; former Chairman/CEO, DFS Group, LTD; former Chairman/CEO, R.H. Macy & Company; Chairman & CEO,

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* 1982–1983 Maj Gen

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, USAF (Ret) US Special Envoy to Sudan * 1982–1983

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; Dean, School of Medicine, Vice Chairman for Medical Affairs, and CEO, UNC Health Care system, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * 1982–1983

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; Lieutenant General, US Air Force; Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, director Air Force Staff (Ret) * 1982–1983 Douglas Kmiec; former

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to Malta; United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel * 1983–1984 Elaine Chao; former Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation; former Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor; former President/CEO, United Way of America; former Director, Peace Corps * 1983–1984 Mufi Hannemann; Mayor, City and County of Honolulu * 1984–1985 Tom Leppert; Mayor of Dallas; former CEO of Turner Construction Company * 1984–1985 Rick Stamberger; President and CEO, SmartBrief * 1986–1987

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;

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, Editorial page, '' The Wall Street Journal'' * 1986–1987

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;

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, U.S. Army; Superintendent, United States Military Academy (Ret) * 1987–1988 The Honorable Mary Schiavo;

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, U.S. Department of Transportation; Author,

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; Attorney * 1988–1989 Jeff Colyer,

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, Plastic Surgeon, former representative, Medical Volunteer in Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Balkans, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Nairobi embassy bombing * 1988–1989

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; chairman, Board of Visitors, United States Air Force Academy; Hispanic American leader; former CEO, Sterling Financial Group of Companies; best-selling author of ''A Message From Garcia'' and ''Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows'' * 1988–1989 Patrick M. Walsh; retired United States Navy

, Former

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, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Blue Angels pilot (Ret) * 1990–1991

Samuel D. Brownback Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, diplomat, and member of the Republican Party who served as the United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom from 2018 to 2021. Brownbac ...

; former

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, Kansas; former

* 1991–1992 Margarita Colmenares; first Latina engineer at Chevron * 1991–1992

Raymond E. Johns, Jr. General Raymond Edward Johns Jr. (born December 7, 1954) is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as Commander, Air Mobility Command. Military career Johns graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977. His aviatio ...

; General, US Air Force; Commander,

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(Ret) * 1992–1993 Honorable Kurt M. Campbell Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia * 1992–1993

Robert L. Gordon III Robert "Rob" L. Gordon III is a cross-sector leader in the government, military, academic, nonprofit and high tech sectors. Gordon was appointed the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy on July 19, 2010, serv ...

Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense, Military Community and Family Policy * 1993–1994 Paul Antony; Chief Medical Officer, PhRMA;

, U.S. Navy,

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, Electronic Attack Squadron VAQ-209 "Star Warriors"; Adjunct Faculty, George Washington University Medical Center, Dept of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine * 1993–1994 Honorable

W. Scott Gould William Scott Gould (born July 19, 1957) is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Gould is also an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Early life and education Gould was born in Topsfield, Mass ...

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs * 1993–1994

Jami Floyd Jami Floyd (born September 10, 1964) is an American attorney, journalist, network news anchor, legal and political analyst, and former White House Fellow. She is the former Legal Analyst at Al Jazeera America and the former Legal Editor and hos ...

; Degrees in Law from UC Berkeley School of Law and Stanford Law School * 1994–1995 Wifredo Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida * 1995–1996

Kinney Zalesne E. Kinney Zalesne is an American writer, political strategist, and former business executive. She is a Senior Advisor to Harvard University's GETTING-Plurality Initiative, and a Deputy National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee. S ...

, co-author of bestselling book and Wall Street Journal column

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* 1996–1997 Brenda Berkman, first female FDNY firefighter * 1997–1998 Dr. Sanjay Gupta; CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, neurosurgeon * 1997–1998 John Burchett; Former Chief of Staff to Governor Jennifer Granholm * 1997–1998 Brad Carson, General Counsel of the Army * 1998–1999 Juan M. Garcia;Asst Secretary of the Navy for Manpower, former representative District 32, Texas House of Representatives * 2000–2001

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* 2006–2007

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. The Director of the PCWHF is appointed by the President, serves as the Designated Federal Officer for the Commission, and is supported by a team of staff members. The Director is responsible for administering all aspects of the program. The Commission meets twice a year and reports to the President of the United States through the Executive Office of the President. The Commission's responsibility is to recommend candidates to the President for selection as White House Fellows. The commissioners help recruit a diverse group of applicants, screen the applicants, and makes recommendations to the President. Current Commissioners overseeing the White House Fellows Program include: * Demetra Lambros, chairwoman and former counsel to President Joe Biden * Karen R. Adler, Senior Vice President of The Adler Group *

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, former President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation *

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constitutional scholar *

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, former Director of the Peace Corps * Cindy S. Moelis *

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Directors of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships

* Rose Vela * Elizabeth Pinkerton * Jennifer Kaplan * Cindy Moelis *

* Jocelyn White * Jacqueline Blumenthal * James C. Roberts

References

External links

White House Fellows websiteWhite House Fellows Foundation and Association website
*President's Commission on White House Fellowships archives
Barack Obama

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1964 establishments in Washington, D.C. Fellowships