1.   Also joining the administration are former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Ann Venemen, who was named by the president-elect to head the agency.

2.   As comptroller of the United States, Walker has the sometimes thankless task of heading the agency that is the investigating arm of Congress.

3.   Bonner said that outside of visits to Mexico, she took one overseas trip during the two years she headed the agency.

4.   A forester by training, Ms. Beattie was the first woman to head the agency.

5.   Alberto Israel and Paolo De Bianchi, executive directors, continue to head the agency.

6.   Buoyed by a bull market, he headed the agency as the percentage of American households with money in the market doubled.

7.   Bush continues to defend Kathleen Kearney, who heads the agency, even as child advocates have called for her ouster.

8.   Cuomo spent four years as assistant secretary of Community Planning and Development at HUD before being nominated to head the agency.

9.   He created the World Anti-Doping Agency, meant to be independent of the IOC, then decided he wanted to head the agency.

10.   He recently hired Joe Farmer, a former city councilman who is black, to head the agency that will oversee housing desegregation.