By Samantha Marcus | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

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Gov.-elect Phil Murphy will be the center of the show Tuesday as he's sworn into office and feted with an inaugural ball at MetLife Stadium. But when it comes time to running the state, he'll have a support squad of two dozen cabinet-level officials, overseeing everything from transportation and education to homeland security.

He said often as he rolled out his nominations for officials to lead New Jersey's state departments that he wanted his cabinet to look like New Jersey. And with two-thirds of his cabinet filled — though requiring state Senate confirmation — nominees will make state and national history.

Gurbir Grewal would be the first Sikh state attorney general in the U.S. The nominee for health commissioner, Shereef Elnaha, would become the first Muslim cabinet official in the state's history. It's perhaps the most diverse cabinet in Jersey history.

Here are all of Murphy's nominees, to date:

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Attorney general

Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal has been nominated for state attorney general.

He was previously chief of the economic crimes unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office under former federal prosecutor Paul Fishman.

The attorney general is New Jersey's top law enforcement official, setting policies that drive how state troopers and local police conduct themselves and prosecuting major criminal cases.

The office also acts as the government's civil lawyer, handling lawsuits on behalf of the governor and nearly every other department in state government.

Grewal would be the first Sikh to serve as a state's attorney general in American history.

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Treasurer

State Assemblywoman Elizabeth Muoio, D-Mercer, was tapped as New Jersey's next treasurer.

If confirmed by the Senate, Muoio would become the fifth woman to hold the position but only the second confirmed to the office.

Muoio, a Pennington resident, has served in the Assembly, the lower house of the state Legislature, since 2015.

The treasurer's most visible role is in crafting the state budget, which is introduced each year in February and adopted in June, but the treasurer oversees state investments, pensions and benefits, state debts and the lottery.

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Education commissioner

On Friday, Murphy announced he was choosing Asbury Park Superintendent Lamont Repollet to lead the Department of Education.

Murphy has promised to wipe out the controversial PARCC testing and wants to eliminate standardized testing as graduation requirement. He also wants to put billions of new dollars into public schools.

As education commissioner, Repollet would help Murphy shape school choice in New Jersey, work toward universal pre-kindergarten and revise the state's graduation requirements.

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Health commissioner

Murphy appointed Shereef Elnahal, a doctor and U.S. Veterans Affairs official, as to helm the Department of Health.

Elnahal would become the first Muslim to serve in a New Jersey governor's cabinet, according to Murphy's transition team.

The commissioner's job includes licensing hospitals and long-term care facilities, leading public health programs, and running the medicinal marijuana program.

Elnahal joined the Obama administration in 2015 and since 2016 served as assistant deputy under secretary for health for quality, safety and value in the Veterans Health Administration.

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Transportation commissioner

Murphy has nominated former New Jersey Turnpike Authority Executive Director Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti to be transportation commissioner.

Gutierrez-Scaccetti retired from the turnpike authority in 2010 after 21 years in its ranks and two as executive director. She left New Jersey after Gov. Chris Christie came into office, and took the lead at the Florida Turnpike Enterprise.

While the state resolved one if its biggest transportation concerns, funding for the Transportation Trust Fund, she will inherit a transit mess. Murphy called NJ Transit a "national disgrace" and promised a shake up.

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Secretary of state

Murphy tapped Tahesha Way, an attorney and former Passaic County freeholder, as secretary of state.

The Department of State is responsible for state archives, the Division of Elections, business and economic development and arts and cultural programs.

Guadagno served as both lieutenant government and secretary of state.

Way is a former administrative law judge.

Murphy said he expects Way will lead the charge on expanding New Jerseyans' voting rights, which includes things like online, automatic and same-day voter registration. He's said he supports early voting and allowing 17-year-olds to vote in the primary if they will be 18 by Election Day.

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Labor and Workforce Development commissioner

Robert Asaro-Angelo represented the eastern region in former President Barack Obama's labor department from 2010 until last February. And if confirmed, he'll lead the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

Asaro-Angelo also served on the White House Hurricane Sandy Task Force, White House Task Force on Puerto Rico and Regional U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, according Murphy's transition team.

He has a union background, having worked for the Laborers International Union of North America, AFSCME and SEIU 1199.

Murphy said he's looking to Asaro-Angelo to chart a new course for the state to grow a skilled and education workforce.

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Banking and Insurance commissioner

Murphy nominated state Assemblywoman Marlene Caride as commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance, which regulates the state's banking, insurance and real estate industries.

Caride, an attorney, was in November elected to her fourth term representing north Jersey's 36th legislative district, including parts of Passaic and Bergen counties.

Since 2011, she's served as Ridgefield municipal prosecutor.

In confirmed, she would become the first Hispanic to helm the agency.

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Department of Environmental Protection commissioner

Environmental lawyer Catherine McCabe served briefly as acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by Obama to serve until President Donald Trump's nominee, Scott Pruitt, was confirmed in February.

Previously, she was deputy regional administrator of EPA's region 2, including New Jersey, and for 22 years she worked at the Department of Justice, with five of those as deputy chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section.

McCabe has said her priorities at the state Department of Environmental Protection will be combating climate change, protecting coastal towns, improving air quality and the state's water infrastructure.

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Community Affairs commissioner

Lt. Gov.-elect Sheila Oliver will serve dual roles in the Murphy administration. She's also been nominated to head the Department of Community Affairs, which oversees New Jersey's local governments.

Oliver is a former Assembly speaker and Essex County freeholder who worked in municipal and county government.

Christie's No. 2, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, has also served as secretary of state, overseeing elections, tourism and economic development.

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Adjutant general

This cabinet official leads the New Jersey National Guard and the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs.

Murphy's transition office said Sunday that Col. Jemal J. Beale is a "decorated combat veteran with more than 30 years of military service." He was serving as deputy chief of staff for the Joint Force Headquarters, New Jersey National Guard.

He previously served as director of plans, operation, training and safety for Joint Force Headquarters of the New Jersey National Guard at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

"He has served in support of domestic missions and overseas operations in Afghanistan, Italy, Germany and Albania," according to a news release.

Murphy's transition office said Beale will be the first minority to lead the state's national guard.

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Homeland Security director

The head of New Jersey's Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, appointed by Christie in 2017, will stay on under Murphy.

The office, an independent agency under the state Division of Law and Public Safety, coordinates counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and emergency preparedness efforts across the state.

Jared Maples spent more than a decade in the CIA before joining the state's homeland security office, where, as administrative director, he oversaw its administration and millions of dollars in federal homeland security grants.

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Corrections commissioner

Department of Corrections Commissioner Gary Lanigan is one of several Christie cabinet officials who will stay on in the new administration.

"They are respected leaders both inside and outside state government, and have proven experience that we need as we put New Jersey on a new course for growth and fairness," Murphy said in a statement.

Lanigan has served in Christie's cabinet since 2010. The Department of Corrections oversees New Jersey's major correctional facilities, with about 10,000 employees overseeing nearly 20,000 inmates across 13 major institutions, from juvenile detention centers to maximum-security prisons.

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Agriculture secretary

Douglas Fisher's tenure as agriculture secretary dates back to Gov. Jon Corzine's administration. He's led the department since 2009, and was previously a four-term member of the Assembly.

Fisher oversees the state's agriculture industry, its agricultural research projects, its farmland and soil protection efforts, the marketing of Jersey goods, and school lunch and charitable food distribution programs.

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Children and Families commissioner

Murphy nominated Christine Norbut Beyer to lead the department responsible for child welfare, behavioral health services and domestic violence programs.

Murphy called the human services and children and families commissioners two of the most "consequential" positions in state government.

Beyer led what was then the Division of Youth and Family Services from 2008 to 2010, and was promoted to assistant commissioner of the newly created Department of Children and Families in 2010. She left in 2011.

She will leave her position at a national child welfare nonprofit to join Murphy's cabinet.

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Human Services commissioner

With confirmation from the Senate, New Jersey's largest state agency will be run by Carole Johnson, a former Obama policy official.

Johnson would oversee a sprawling department that manages Medicaid and other programs for the poor and people with physical and developmental disabilities. The department serves 1.5 million of New Jersey's 9 million residents.

Johnson has served on the White House Domestic Policy Council health team and as a research scientist and lecturer at the George Washington University's Center for Health Policy Research.

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Board of Public Utilities president

Murphy on Monday nominated Joe Fiordaliso to serve as president of the Board of Public Utilities. Fiordaliso has served as one of five commissioners on the board since 2005, according to the governor-elect's transition team.

The board regulates utility services in New Jersey.

"We can and we must do more to ensure high-quality and affordable utilities services that work for the people of New Jersey," Fiordaliso said in a statement announcing his nomination.

Fiordaliso serves on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Committee on Critical Infrastructure and Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment. He's also a member of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners and the Eastern Interconnection States' Planning Council, according to a news release.

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Still to come

Believe it or not, there are plenty of positions still to fill.

Murphy has not yet named a CEO of the Economic Development Authority, chair of the Civil Service Commission, secretary of the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education, state comptroller, chair of the Motor Vehicle Commission, chief technology officer or state police superintendent.

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Top staff

These close advisors aren't part of Murphy's cabinet, but they will be part of running the show.

His chief of staff is Pete Cammarano, formerly chief of staff to Gov. Richard Codey and a partner at Trenton-based government relations firm CLB Partners. He resigned his post as mayor of Metuchen in December.

Matt Platkin, the Murphy campaign's policy director, will serve as the governor's chief counsel. Prior to joining Murphy's exploratory committee, he worked in private practice at New York-based Debevoise & Plimpton.

Just last week Murphy fleshed out his senior staff with these hires:

Adam Alonso will be Murphy's deputy chief of staff for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs. He's the founder and CEO of the Cratos Group, a Bergen County-based public affairs consulting firm.

Justin Braz, deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs. Braz is the former chief of staff for Assemblyman Gary Schaer, D-Passaic, and the political coordinator for 1199 SEIU.

Kathleen Frangione, chief policy adviser. She's a former executive vice president of the Washington D.C. policy and political consultancy firm the Signal Group. She previously served as senior policy advisor on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then-Sen. John Kerry, acting as lead staffer on climate change issues, according to the transition office.

Parimal Garg, deputy chief counsel. He clerked for New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner and worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in Washington, D.C.

Mahen Gunaratna, director of communications, worked as deputy communications director to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio since January 2017.

Lynn Haynes, deputy chief of staff for cabinet affairs and operations. She's a partner in the Trenton-based Advocacy & Management Group, which she joined in 2014 after four years as deputy executive director and chief counsel for Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester.

Joe Kelley, deputy chief of staff for economic growth. He worked as the deputy campaign manager and finance director for Murphy's gubernatorial campaign.

Mary Maples, deputy chief counsel for authorities. Maples is the senior counsel for the state's authorities unit. Prior to that, she worked at the CIA as assistant general counsel.

Kate McDonnell, deputy chief counsel. She's currently works as general counsel to the Assembly Majority Office.

Scarlett Rajski, director of appointments. She works in the Corporate and Regulatory Affairs division at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

Stephanie Lagos, chief of staff to First Lady Tammy Snyder Murphy. Lagos was a senior policy adviser to Murphy's gubernatorial campaign.

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