Waiting for Advice and Consent: Record‐Level Diversity amidst an Exceedingly Slow Confirmation Pace during the First 300 Days of the Biden Administration

Staffing the top levels of executive branch is a high‐priority task for new presidents. Roughly 4,000 presidentially appointed positions are spread across branch, and appointees to most senior (nearly 1,200) require Senate confirmation. Throughout 2020 presidential campaign, then candidate Joe Biden promised select diverse set appointees. This article examines President Biden's commitment this pledge as well pace at which confirmed his first tranche To assess performance during 300 days administration, I compare record three immediate predecessors (Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump). The data reveal that while fulfilled promise by appointing numbers women non‐Whites, these were was much slower than those predecessors.