These Goldman Sachs Employees Are About To Be The Happiest People On Wall Street

It's partner day at Goldman Sachs!

The list of the 78 new partners is out.

Being named a partner at Goldman is a huge deal. It's one of the most highly-coveted titles on Wall Street.

Partners are picked every two-years during an extremely intense and secretive selection process.

In 2012, the bank tapped only 70 partners compared to 110 in the previous cycle. The size of the partner class isn't pre-dictated, though. However, it usually tends to be between 1.5 and 1.9% of the full-time employee population at the firm.

This morning, CEO Lloyd Blankfein and president/COO Gary Cohn personally called folks at their desks to let them know they've been made a partner.

The calls usually begin around 5 a.m. EST with the Asia offices and continue until around 9 a.m. EST.

Here's the list:

Fadi Abuali	Jan Fritze	Etsuko Kobayashi	Kunal Shah (London)
Aaron Arth	Dino Fusco	Nyron Latif	Richard L. "Jake" Siewert
Jennifer Barbetta	Huntley Garriott	Greg Lee	Jason Silvers
Thomas Barrett	Jeff Gido	Dirk Lievens	Kevin Sterling
Gerard Beatty	Littleton Glover	Kyri Loupis	Umesh Subramanian
Shane Bolton	Cyril Goddeeris	John Madsen	Dan Swift
Will Bousquette	Alexander Golten	Richard Manley	Ben Thorpe
Kane Brenan	Jason Gottlieb	Michael Marsh	Oliver Thym
Tavis Cannell	Joanne Hannaford	Ali Meli	Joe Todd
T.J. Carella	Julie Harris	David Miller	Hiroyuki Tomokiyo
Gary Chropuvka	Edouard Hervey	Joseph Montesano	Thomas Tormey
Darren Cohen	Matthias Hieber	Eric Muller	Mark Van Wyk
Stephanie Cohen	Charles Himmelberg	Manikandan Natarajan	Rajesh Venkataramani
Kathleen Connolly	Sean Hoover	Fergal O'Driscoll	Matthew Verrochi
Sara Devereux	Pierre Hudry	Kristin Olson	Owen West
Iain Drayton	Irfan Hussain	Jernej Omahen	Ronnie Wexler
Carlos Fernandez-Aller	Kevin Kelly	Nicholas Phillips	Xiaoyin Zhang
Jonathan Fine	Tammy Kiely	Rob Pulford	Adam Zotkow
Meena Lakdawala Flynn	Maxim Klimov	Colin Ryan
David Friedland	Edward Knight	Carsten Schwarting