WASHINGTON – Joe Biden has named the team of people to advise him in his search for a vice presidential running mate.

Biden's vice presidential selection committee, announced Thursday morning, will include four co-chairs: Former U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd; U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti; and Cynthia Hogan, former White House and Senate counsel to Biden.

“These four co-chairs reflect the strength and diversity of our party, and will provide tremendous insight and expertise to what will be a rigorous selection and vetting process," campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a news release announcing the committee.

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The co-chairs "will conduct conversations across the party as well as work with a network of vetting teams led by former White House Counsel Bob Bauer, campaign General Counsel Dana Remus and former Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco," according to the news release.

Biden has reiterated on multiple occasions that his Democratic running mate will be a woman, and myriad names have circulated as possible options, including former rivals Sens. Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. At a fundraiser Wednesday, Biden said he hopes to have a vice presidential candidate vetted by July, according to a pool report from the event.

Himself a former vice president, Biden reportedly views the selection process that put him on the Democratic ticket as the model for his own search, according to The New York Times.

Then-nominee Barack Obama's vice presidential committee in 2008 included: Eric Holder, who was later appointed attorney general by Obama; Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy who was later named by Obama as ambassador to Japan; and Jim Johnson, who worked for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984 and assisted in John Kerry's search for a running mate in 2004 but eventually stepped down from Obama's committee.

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Here's more about the four people who will be leading Biden's search committee:

Chris Dodd

Dodd, a former senator from Connecticut, has been a friend and colleague to Biden for almost 40 years. The two served in the Senate together for nearly 30 years and he endorsed Biden for president in October 2019. Dodd, who helped co-author the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, also played a role in helping pass the Affordable Care Act, a signature piece of legislation for the Obama administration. The senator joined Biden as a Democratic presidential candidate in the 2008 election cycle, exiting the race on the night of the Iowa caucuses. He is currently senior counsel at the law firm of Arnold & Porter, according to the campaign's announcement.

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Lisa Blunt Rochester

Blunt Rochester, a Democratic representative from Biden's home state of Delaware, became the first African American and first female member of Congress to be elected from the state in 2016. Blunt Rochester is an assistant whip for House Democrats and was named a national co-chair of Biden's campaign in March. She will likely be an important voice as co-chair of the committee, as many Democrats have called for Biden to choose a black woman as his running mate. She was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, just as Biden did.

Eric Garcetti

Garcetti endorsed Biden in January and has since served as a national co-chair for the campaign. He was a member of the LA City Council before being elected mayor of Los Angeles in 2013. He is on the board of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, a Rhodes Scholar and served as an intelligence officer in the Naval Reserve. He also is the co-founder of Climate Mayors, which includes 438 mayors committed to the principles of the Paris Agreement, according to the campaign news release. Climate change is a key issue for many Democratic voters, especially young progressive voters whom Biden is trying to woo.

Cynthia Hogan

Hogan is a longtime aide to Biden, serving as the deputy assistant to the president and counsel to the vice president from 2009 to 2013. She led the administration's efforts to get Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the news release, and has held senior policy roles at Apple and the NFL. She has also served as the staff director and chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In that role, she helped with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which was co-sponsored by then-Sen. Biden in 1994.