appointee

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Separately, federal law prohibits non-career full-time employees—chiefly political appointees—from working for outside parties.

From Barron's

The woman “is a legal refugee who took the proper steps on the first available date to apply for a status adjustment,” wrote Davis, a Clinton appointee.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is part of the Labor Department but operates independently, relying on nonpartisan staff economists who tabulate the numbers without input from the commissioner, the agency’s only political appointee.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the same time, they also avoid rules that, in theory, enforce “policy neutrality,” and do not place their life and death in the hands of a single executive or political appointee.

From Salon

Mary Young, research director at Davis Financial Group and co-author of “Financial Planning for Solo Agers,” is taking a similar hybrid approach: using her brother as primary appointee and an elder-care adviser as a backup.

From MarketWatch