First openly LGBT person named to Obama's cabinet

[Natasha]

First openly LGBT person named to Obama's cabinet

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=33670&type=gaylesbian
12/16/2008

With Nancy Sutley joining Team Obama as chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality, she becomes the first prominent, openly gay or lesbian to join the Cabinet.

She is currently L.A.'s deputy mayor for energy and environment and the mayor's rep on the board of directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Most politically intriguing: She was a member of Hillary Clinton's California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender steering committee during the state's primary. Oh, Obama, that's so "Team of Rivals" of you to invite her.

[Kaweah]

According to the New York Times, she has "more than a decade in senior environmental, energy and water policy-making positions in California. She also has experience dealing with budget and legislative matters at the state and federal level."

On the other hand, she is "a Mets fan and a devotee of Wallace and Gromit, the British claymation-style movie series about a scatterbrained inventor who is overly fond of cheese and his precocious dog."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/us/politics/13web-sutley.html

I hope she is approved despite these things.