The Clinton transition team continues to beef up their staff as polls show Hillary Clinton is likely to win the White House. | Getty Top Obama transportation official joins Clinton team

Carlos Monje, a top Transportation Department official and a veteran of President Barack Obama's White House, has joined Hillary Clinton's transition team, sources familiar with the hire told POLITICO.

Sources said Monje is overseeing the Clinton transition operation's agency review teams, which are charged with ensuring a smooth transfer of power at dozens of federal agencies.


Monje currently serves as assistant secretary for transportation policy. Before that, he was counselor to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, chief of staff at the White House Domestic Policy Council and deputy policy director at Obama for America. Monje also worked on homeland security and veterans affairs issues for Obama while he was an Illinois senator.

Monje is the latest person of color to join Clinton's transition team, which has set a goal of hiring minorities and women to serve in a Clinton administration if she wins the White House in November.

POLITICO reported last month that Clinton's transition team tapped the Rev. Leah Daughtry, the CEO of the 2016 and 2008 Democratic National Convention Committees, to help lead the transition operation’s personnel team. The transition also recently hired former White House Hispanic outreach aide Stephanie Valencia Ramirez and John Jones, chief of staff to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Though it had a slow start, the Clinton transition team is staffing up as polls show Clinton is likely to win the White House. The team is led by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Other staffers include Clinton aides Ed Meier and Ann O’Leary.

The Clinton campaign declined to comment and Monje did not immediately respond to a request for comment.