Gov. Frank Murkowski's cabinet includes a labor leader, a power company executive, a timber industry lawyer, a Native corporation CEO and staffers from his former U.S. Senate office. Some positions have yet to filled.

Members include:

• Chief of staff: Jim Clark, who was head of the Murkowski transition team, is the governor's chief of staff. Clark has been managing director and senior partner of the Juneau law firm Robertson, Monagle and Eastaugh, which he has worked with since 1973.

He has managed the firm's environmental law team handling compliance issues and criminal and civil court proceedings. He has represented timber and mining industry clients such as the Alaska Pulp Corp., which ran a pulp mill in Sitka until 1993.

Clark has lobbied and otherwise represented such industries before the state Legislature, the U.S. Congress and various regulatory agencies. His law degree is from Cornell Law School.

• Office of Management and Budget: Anchorage Budget Director Cheryl Frasca heads the governor's budget-writing office. Frasca served as deputy chief of staff from 1993 to 1994 for Gov. Walter Hickel and as director of the Division of Budget Review at the OMB from 1990 to 1993.

Frasca was treasurer for a group called Vote Yes!, which campaigned for a 1999 initiative to use Alaska Permanent Fund earnings as a part of a long-range fiscal plan. From 1994 to 2000, she ran a government relations consulting firm with clients including BP Exploration, Alaska State Chamber of Commerce and the University of Alaska Anchorage.

She worked as a legislative staffer for Senate and House Finance Committee members from 1977 to 1990. Frasca has a master's degree in public administration from the University of Alaska Southeast.

• Environmental Conservation: Ketchikan consultant Ernesta Ballard is commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation. Ballard was regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983 to 1986, overseeing federal laws regulating air and water quality, wetland preservation, hazardous materials management, and hazardous waste cleanup.

Ballard also served as chief executive officer for the Cape Fox Native Corp. from 1989 to 1994. She has operated Ballard & Associates, a consulting firm based in Ketchikan, and has lobbied for the cruise ship industry and Ketchikan Pulp Co. She also served as budget director for the University of Washington, and as senior vice president for Retail Banking at Seattle Trust and Savings Bank.

Ballard holds a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University.

• Law: Gregg Renkes, who served as Murkowski's chief of staff and chief counsel in Washington, D.C., heads up the state Law Department as attorney general. Renkes served as campaign coordinator for Murkowski's bid for governor and his 1992 and 1998 Senate re-election campaigns.

Renkes was majority staff director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and worked for the 1996 Republican National Convention Platform Committee. He recently served as president of The Renkes Group, an energy project development and public policy consultant firm. He also worked with the American Indian Law Practice Group of the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson.

Renkes has been the executive director of the Alaska 2001 Youth Summit and a member of the Cruise Industry Charitable Foundation. His law degree is from the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder.

• Revenue: Bill Corbus, recently retired president and general manager for Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. in Juneau, is commissioner of the state Revenue Department. Corbus also has been president of Alaska Energy and Resources Co., AEL&P's parent company, since 1988.

Corbus holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Amos Tuck Graduate School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. From 1965-69, Corbus worked for Stone & Webster in New York City, providing public utility security analysis, financial planning, and accounting.

In 1970, he joined AEL&P as assistant manager, becoming general manager and president in 1978.

• Labor and Workforce Development: Greg O'Claray of Juneau, director of legislative and governmental affairs for the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, is the governor's labor commissioner. MEBA is an AFL-CIO affiliate representing engineers working on Alaska ferries, trade oil tankers and other commercial vessels.

O'Claray has been a professional mariner since 1960. In addition to MEBA, he has worked for the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific and Seafarers International Union of North America. He has been involved in the Alaska Committee, which works to keep Juneau as Alaska's capital. He also has served as a trustee on two benefit trusts for 6,000 maritime workers in Alaska and the West Coast.

• Health and Social Services: Joel Gilbertson, legislative counsel and legislative director for Murkowski in Washington, D.C., heads the Department of Health and Social Services.

Gilbertson, 29, is the administration's ­ and the state's ­ youngest commissioner ever. Murkowski was the previous youngest commissioner, of economic development, in the first term of Gov. Walter Hickel at the age of 32.

Gilbertson is a recent graduate of George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. He served as legislative director and legislative counsel for Murkowski since 1999, working on issues such as Medicaid, children's health care, Social Security and welfare reform.

Originally from Fairfax, Va., Gilbertson has worked for the Center for Health Services Research and Policy, and for the National Association of Social Workers.

• Corrections: Marc Antrim of Juneau, a longtime employee of the Department of Corrections, is Corrections Department commissioner, overseeing state prisons and related programs.

Antrim has worked within the department for 19 years, serving as a correctional officer and shift supervisor. In 2001, Antrim was promoted to lieutenant and given the task of supervising all administrative sergeants.

He has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

• Military and Veterans Affairs: Col. Craig Campbell, vice commander of the 168th Air Refueling Wing of the Alaska Air National Guard, is commissioner of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

The department oversees homeland security, state emergency services and military divisions such as the Army National Guard, Air National Guard and Naval Militia.

Campbell has served in the military for 27 years. He served on the Anchorage Assembly from 1986 to 1996 and most recently was executive director of the Anchorage municipal Office of Planning, Development and Public Works. Campbell also served as deputy commissioner of the Military and Veterans Affairs Department under Govs. Walter Hickel and Tony Knowles.

As of the deadline for this publication, temporary or acting commissioners remained at some departments. They are listed below, with their position before becoming acting commissioner.

• Administration: Sharon Barton, director of personnel.

• Community & Economic Development: Tom Lawson, director of administrative services.

• Education and Early Development: Shirley Holloway, Knowles administration commissioner.

• Fish and Game: Kevin Duffey, deputy commissioner.

• Natural Resources: Marty Rutherford, deputy commissioner.

• Public Safety: Del Smith, Knowles administration commissioner.

• Transportation & Public Facilities: Mike Downing, director of design and engineering services.