Biswal is assisted by Atul Keshap, another Indian American, while Puneet Talwar as assistant secretary for political-military affairs serves as a bridge between the State and Defence departments. And Arun Madhavan Kumar as assistant secretary of commerce and director general of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service is charged with boosting U.S. trade.

Amid growing protests over the treatment of blacks, Obama chose Vanita Gupta to lead the U.S. justice department's civil rights division charged with enforcing laws that prevent discrimination.

Another Indian American Anita M. Singh was picked up for a key job in the Justice Department's National Security Division to counter state-sponsored economic espionage and proliferation, including through cyberspace. Indira Talwani and Manish Shah became the first Asian American federal judges in Massachusetts and Obama's home state of Illinois, respectively.

To clean up the Wall Street, Obama picked up Preet Bharara as New York's US attorney. Known in India for his dogged prosecution of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, Bharara tasted his first defeat in July after winning 85 insider trading cases.

Earlier in his first term, Obama chose Aneesh Paul Chopra as America's first chief technology officer and Vivek Kundra as the first U.S. chief information officer.

Rohit "Ro" Khanna served as deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Commerce department before making an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House seat last November.

And Neel Tushar Kashkari, who made a failed run for California governor in November, earned the nickname of "700 billion-dollar man" for leading the federal bank bailout plan from October 2008 to May 2009.
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