World War II; only civilian woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross award during World War II Edward Lee Howard – CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 Anne N. Foreman - former General Counsel of the Air Force and United States Under Secretary of the Air Force, WCL John Albert Knebel – United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Gerald Ford, WCL/JD '65 John Macy – director of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States Government administrator and civil servant Gordon H. Mansfield – United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, WCL Barry McCaffrey – White House Drug Czar under President Bill Clinton, Retired United States Army General, NBC News and MSNBC military analyst M. Peter McPherson – director of the USAID Program under President Ronald Reagan, president of Michigan State University, director of Dow Jones, WCL/JD '69 Warren L. Miller – director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, BA David Nason – Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions under Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson; key architect of the federal response to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, KSB/BSBA '92, WCL/JD '95 Nicole Nason – director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, BA Diana Villiers Negroponte – US trade lawyer, wife of United States Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, WCL/JD Ron Nessen – White House Press Secretary under President Gerald Ford William H. Pickle – 37th United States Senate Sergeant at Arms; highly decorated Vietnam War veteran Nitin Pradhan – US Department of Transportation chief information officer Donna Shalala – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, current president of the University of Miami, Washington Semester William C. Sullivan – head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation intelligence operations, MA Vanessa Allen Sutherland - former chairperson of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, KSB/MBA'97 and WCL/JD '96 Paul Teller – executive director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee Hugo Teufel III – Department of Homeland Security Chief Privacy Officer, WCL/JD '90 Desson Thomson – White House speechwriter for President Barack Obama; The Washington Post film critic, SOC/BA ’80 Frances Townsend – United States Department of Homeland Security advisor to President George W. Bush, SPA/BA, CAS/BS '82 William J. Walker – United States Army major general, commanding general, District of Columbia National Guard, former director, Office of Diversion and Chemical Control, Drug Enforcement