Obama’s Second Term Cabinet

Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki will stay in their positions in President Obama’s second term. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is resigning.

Sec Solis was a four-term congresswoman representing southern California, and was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet. Sec Solis becomes the fifth member of the Cabinet to announce that she intends to leave in Obama's second term, joining Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson. Her resignation will likely intensify pressure on the White House to consider diversity in the remainder of its Cabinet appointments. Obama's last two appointments — Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) — are white men. And Obama is expected to nominate White House chief of staff Jack Lew to be Treasury secretary as soon as this week.