Richard Danzig, currently an adviser to the Obama campaign, has been mentioned as a potential pick as Secretary of Defense in an Obama administration. The ABA journal recently included Richard Danzig in its profile of lawyers who may ended up with jobs should Obama win:
Having served as secretary of the Navy in the Clinton administration and as a top deputy in the Defense Department, Danzig knows his way around the Pentagon. He was a Rhodes scholar and a clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Byron White. While heading the Navy, he was instrumental in developing a personnel system that treated recruits as highly skilled technical workers. In recent years he has become better known for his take on U.S. Middle East policy. Explaining a need to change the U.S. approach to the region at a foreign policy convention, Danzig--who holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford--invoked the cultural lessons of Winnie the Pooh and Luke Skywalker: If a tactic is causing too much pain, it's time to try something else.