Robert Weaver, Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency
Clifton Wharton, Ambassador to Norway
Carl Rowan, Ambassador to Finland
Thurgood Marshall, United States Circuit Court
James B. Parsons, United States District Court
Wade McCree, United States District Court
A. Leon Higginbotham, United States District Court
Merl McCurdy, United States Attorney
Cecil F. Poole, United States Attorney
John B. Duncan, District of Columbia Board of Commissioners
President Kennedy appointed more African-Americans to high places of government than any president before him.