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The original Carter Cabinet included several members who had been prominent officials in previous Democratic administrations: Cyrus R. Vance, secretary of state; W. Michael Blumenthal, secretary of the treasury; Harold Brown, secretary of defense; and Joseph A. Califano, Jr., secretary of health, education, and welfare. Carter appointed Griffin B. Bell, a federal judge and longtime associate, as attorney general. Other Cabinet heads were Cecil D. Andrus, interior; Robert Bergland, agriculture; F. Ray Marshall, labor; and Brock Adams, transportation. James R. Schlesinger became secretary of a new Cabinet-level Department of Energy.

Carter appointed two women: Juanita M. Kreps, secretary of commerce, and Patricia Roberts Harris, secretary of housing and urban development. Harris was the only black member of the Cabinet; but Carter appointed Andrew Young, a black Georgia congressman, as ambassador to the United Nations (UN). A close Carter associate, Young became a prominent but controversial foreign policy spokesman. Carter appointed William H. Webster as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Adm. Stansfield Turner as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He did not make any Supreme Court appointments.


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