President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday announced that Robert Gibbs would be his White House press secretary and Ellen Moran would serve as director of communications.

Gibbs, a long-time aide, was long believed to become the public face of the Obama White House. The Democrat’s transition team also said that Dan Pfeiffer will become deputy communications director.

That new addition is Moran, who is currently the executive director of EMILY’s List, an abortion rights advocacy organization that seeks to elect female candidates to office.

Moran’s political experience runs deep. She worked on campaigns since Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) 1992 presidential run. Moran has directed independent expenditures for the Democratic National Committee in the 2004 election and ran a $50 million issue advocacy campaign for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2000.

Pfeiffer was Obama’s communications director for the presidential campaign. Like several other Obama aides, he can be linked back to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), who is slated to become Health and Human Services secretary. Pfeiffer was Daschle’s deputy campaign manager for his 2004 reelection bid that ended in defeat to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.).

Gibbs will be the man behind the podium in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. Gibbs was there with Obama as he began his climb onto the national stage, serving as communications director for his successful 2004 Senate race in Illinois. Before Pfeiffer, Gibbs was originally the presidential campaign’s communications director before being promoted to senior strategist. He has worked on several campaigns and was a press secretary for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.