President Barack Obama has tapped many from the legal profession to serve in his administration—among them several Stanford Law School alumni. Here is a roundup of SLS graduates who, as of early September, have been selected for positions in the new administration.

Michael Camuñez ’98, Special Assistant to the President. A partner at the Los Angeles office of O’Melveny & Myers before rejoining public service with this position, Camuñez previously served as a 
senior policy advisor for national service in the Clinton administration. He is currently a member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors.

Ivan K. Fong ’87, General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security. Fong previously served as the chief legal officer and secretary for Cardinal Health, Inc. and as deputy associate attorney general for the Department of Justice.

Roberto Gonzalez ’03, Associate Counsel to the President. Gonzalez served as an associate at WilmerHale before joining the Obama administration. Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

David J. Hayes ’78, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Hayes previously served as deputy secretary of the interior from 1999 to 2001. More recently, he was a partner at Latham & Watkins.

Cindy S. Moelis ’87, Director for the Presidential Commission on White House Fellows. Moelis served as the executive director of the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation before accepting this appointment.

Richard L. Morningstar ’70, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Policy. Morningstar has been the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a visiting scholar and diplomat in residence at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies since 2002. He previously served as a special advisor on energy and foreign policy under President Clinton.

Robert S. Rivkin ’87, General Counsel, Department of Transportation. Rivkin was previously vice president and deputy general counsel of the risk management and insurance brokerage firm Aon Corporation. He also served as general counsel of the Chicago Transit Authority, the second-largest transportation system in the United States, from 2001 to 2004.

John V. Roos ’80, Ambassador to Japan. Roos was most recently the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. (See page 12 for a fuller profile.)

Hilary Tompkins ’96, Solicitor of the Department of the Interior. Tompkins served as chief counsel to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson prior to joining the Obama administration. She began her law career as an attorney for the Department of Justice.

Christian A. Weideman ’00, Associate Counsel to the President. Weideman most recently served as an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP. He was a law clerk to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California and to Judge Richard L. Nygaard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Tony West ’92, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Civil Division. West was a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco prior to his appointment with the Department of Justice. He was a special assistant at the department during the Clinton administration and an assistant U.S. attorney in Northern California.