Joe Biden's Cabinet Picks Include John Kerry, Alejandro Mayorkas, Avril Haines .
The president-elect's transition team
shared his picks on Monday.
Mayorkas, who served as deputy Homeland Security secretary from 2013 to 2016.
would be the first Latino — and immigrant — to run the Homeland Security Department.
Haines, who has worked with Biden for over a decade,
served as principal deputy national security adviser
under President Obama from 2015 to 2017.
She's been tapped to become the highest-ranking
woman to serve in the intelligence community
as Director of National Intelligence.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry
is set to fill the role of special presidential
envoy for climate and have a seat on
the National Security Council.
These individuals are
equally as experienced
and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative. , President-elect Joe Biden, via statement.
Their accomplishments in diplomacy are unmatched, but they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet the profound challenges of this new moment with old thinking and unchanged habits — , President-elect Joe Biden, via statement.
— or without diversity of background and perspective. It’s why I’ve selected them, President-elect Joe Biden, via statement.
Biden's picks will first require Senate approval to serve in their respective posts.
Reema Dodin and Shuwanza Goff were also announced as deputy directors of the
White House legislative affairs office