The top floors of the Executive Tower and a slew of state agencies are full of new faces, or at least familiar faces in new jobs, as Gov. Jan Brewer deals with the myriad personnel issues that typically face a newly minted administration.

Decisions about gubernatorial staff and department heads have occupied much of the administration's time during its frenzied first weeks, which saw eight agency directors submit their resignations as key staff positions filled up on the eighth and ninth floors. But there are more open spots yet to be filled, more advisers yet to be named, and continued movement at the agencies as former Gov. Janet Napolitano's appointees step down and her successor figures out who will take their places.

Some agency heads will keep their jobs under the Brewer administration, at least on an interim basis, while others have literally followed Napolitano out the door to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, submitting their resignations before Napolitano even officially stepped down. Others have announced their departures since.

 Much of Brewer's staff was already announced by the time of her Jan. 21 inauguration, which came less than 24 hours after Napolitano submitted her resignation, effectively making Brewer acting governor. But several of the open spots had been filled by the end of her first week as governor.

Since she took her oath of office, Brewer has selected Eileen Klein, former Arizona House of Representatives policy director and chief operating officer of Arizona Physicians IPA by UnitedHealthcare, to head the Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting.

Karla Phillips, Arizona State University's director of state government affairs and a former state House policy adviser, was named on Jan. 26 as Brewer's K-12 policy adviser, and Beth Kohler Lazare, a managing consultant at Navigant Consulting's Phoenix office and former state Senate analyst, will advise the governor on health and human services issues.

Shannon Scutari, Napolitano's policy adviser for growth and infrastructure, will keep her post in the Brewer administration. She is the only Napolitano adviser to stay on with the new governor.

At state agencies, Department of Corrections Director Dora Schriro and Arizona State Lottery Director Art Macias submitted their resignations, effective at the end of January. Prior to those most recent resignations, six others announced that they were stepping down. Those six were Department of Health Services Director January Contreras; Government Information Technology Agency Director Chris Cummiskey; Department of Commerce Director Marco Lopez; Department of Environmental Quality Director Steve Owens; Department of Economic Security Director Tracy Wareing; and Department of Real Estate Director Sam Wercinski.

Most of the departed agency heads from the Napolitano administration have been replaced on an interim basis by deputy directors or other top administration personnel. Deputy directors who are now serving as interim directors include Will Humble at DHS; Pat Cunningham at DEQ; Max Ivey at GITA; and Kent Ennis at Commerce.

Assistant Commissioner of Operations Jerome Jordan is now interim director at the Department of Real Estate, where the deputy director position had been vacant. At DES, former director Linda Blessing, who ran the agency in the mid-1990s, is back as interim director.

Chuck Coughlin, the director of Brewer's transition team, said the team is working on recommendations regarding agency heads for the new governor. Paul Senseman, a Brewer spokesman, said there is also a review process underway among the governor's official staff.

"We're going to get together and finalize recommendations to give to the administration, and then it will be up to the administration to review those," Coughlin said. The recommendations will cover "all the agencies, everything beyond the eighth and ninth floor."

Several Napolitano-era department heads declined to comment on whether they expect to keep their jobs under Brewer, and other interim directors did not speculate on whether they will be named to their posts permanently.

Humble, who has been at DHS for nearly 20 years, said he has only accepted his position on an interim basis, and did not say how much interest he has in keeping the job.

"I might be interested. Honestly, right now, 100 percent of my focus is on … two things – No. 1 is stabilizing the department and making sure that everybody knows what our leadership is like, and that kind of thing. And my other priority is just to get prepared and do all I can to help with the budget issues that we're all facing," he said. "That's really my focus right now, as opposed to staying in the job."

Liz Barker-Alvarez, a spokeswoman at DES, said she does not know if Blessing has had any discussions with Brewer about the director position.

"She has indicated that she is here for the interim while the search is on for a new director," Barker-Alvarez said of Blessing.

Others appear to be staying put.

"I'm here, and I've been notified that I'll probably stay here," said Department of Agriculture Director Donald Butler.

Seth Mones, director of the Department of Weights and Measures, also has been asked to stay as interim director, said department spokesman Steve Meissner.

Schriro, the first woman to head the Arizona Department of Corrections, said she will join the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, now under Napolitano's leadership, as a senior policy adviser. Contreras, Lopez and Macias are also going to work for Napolitano at DHS.

"It has been five years since we came together to successfully resolve the standoff at ASPC-Lewis and begin the remaking of ADC. I am so proud to have been your co-worker and colleague and to have had this exceptional opportunity to travel with you towards flagship status," Schriro wrote. "These accomplishments, for which we are now receiving national attention, are your doing. You are extraordinary men and women, corrections professionals keeping our communities safe now and later."

Much of Brewer's staff moved with her from the Secretary of State's Office, including former Deputy Secretary of State Kevin Tyne, now her chief of staff, and former elections director Joe Kanefield, now the governor's general counsel. Others jumped from Brewer's transition team to the Governor's Office, such as Richard Bark, Tom Manos, Brian McNeil and Klein. Bark, Manos and McNeil were chosen as deputy chiefs of staff for policy, finance and operations, respectively.