Look into the history of the Democrats since Clinton. Obama and Clinton have appointed lawyers in the place where trained professionals should have been. Clinton put lawyers in charge of the FDA, APHIS and USDA and the results is what we have today with incompetence.
A lawyer in charge of overall care of an infectious and contagious disease such as Ebola is a recipe for disaster. Not only a lawyer but a political hack. Where is congress and the Senate?
To be fair, the man Bush II appointed to head FEMA, Michael Brown (of “Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job” fame) was also a lawyer. He had very minimal experience in emergency management.
If I were president, they only people I'd appoint to crisis positions would be retired Marine Corps colonels.