Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is an American politician and Democrat who served as government official under several Democratic administrations Secretary of Defense (2011-13), director of the CIA (2009-11), White House Chief of Staff (1994-97), director of the Office of Management and Budget (1993-94), and as a U.S. Representative from California (1977-93). Panetta was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993. He served under President Bill Clinton as Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1994 and as White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997. He cofounded the Panetta Institute for Public Policy in 1997 and served as a Distinguished Scholar to Chancellor Charles B. Reed of the California State University System and as a professor of public policy at Santa Clara University. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)