Full Cabinet Named Quickly - fastest of any President in 32 years

Full Cabinet Named Quickly (www.electoral-vote.com)

President-elect Barack Obama named his full cabinet the fastest of any President in 32 years. It is a highly educated batch, with 80% having graduate degrees. Here is the list.

Position	Cabinet officer	Bachelors Degree	Graduate School
Attorney General	Eric Holder	Columbia Univ.	J.D. Columbia Law School
Secretary of Agriculture	former Gov. Tom Vilsack	Hamilton Coll.	J.D. Albany Law School
Secretary of Commerce Gov.	Bill Richardson	Tufts Univ.	M.A. Tufts Univ.
Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates	Coll. of William & Mary	Ph.D. Georgetown
Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan	Harvard Univ.	-
Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu	Univ. of Rochester	Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley
Secretary of Health and Human Services	former Sen. Tom Daschle	South Dakota State Univ.	-
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan	Harvard Univ.	M.A. Harvard Univ.
Secretary of Homeland Security	Gov. Janet Napolitano	Santa Clara Univ.	J.D. Univ. of Virginia Law School
Secretary of the Interior	Sen. Ken Salazar	Colorado Coll.	J.D. Univ. of Michigan Law School
Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis	Cal State Polytechnic	M. Public Admin., USC
Secretary of State Sen.	Sen. Hillary Clinton	Wellesley College	J.D. Yale Univ. Law School
Secretary of Transportation	Rep. Ray LaHood	Bradley Univ.	-
Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner	Dartmouth Coll.	M.A. Johns Hopkins Univ.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Gen. Eric Shinseki	USMA West Point	M.A. Duke Univ.

During the campaign, some people were saying Obama would turn the country over to black people. He certainly didn't do that with the cabinet. Here is the ethnic/gender breakdown.

	Male	Female
White	7	2
Black	1	0
Latino	2	1
Asian	2	0