For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 5, 2002
Nominations and Appointment
President Bush to Nominate Four Individuals and Appoint One to Serve as Members of His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate four
individuals and his intention to appoint one individual to serve as
members of his administration.
The President intends to nominate Richard J. Pelz to be Alternate
Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Pelz has
served with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation since 1995,
and currently serves as the Deputy Secretary and oversees the Bureau of
Public Transportation and the Bureau of Municipal Services. Before
joining the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, he was district
administrator for Congressman Bill Clinger, representative of the
state's fifth district. He is a graduate of Indiana University of
Pennsylvania.
The President intends to nominate Anne Pope to be Federal Co-Chair
of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Pope has served as
Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance
since 1999, and was previously the Executive Director of the Tennessee
Film, Entertainment and Music Commission. She is a graduate of
Vanderbilt University and Samford University Law School.
The President intends to nominate David Greenlee to Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to
the Republic of Bolivia. A career member of the Senior Foreign
Service, he has served as Chief of Mission in Paraguay since June
2000. From 1997 to 1999, he was Special Coordinator for Haiti in the
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Greenlee's past assignments
include service as Political Advisor to the Army Chief of Staff, Deputy
Chief of Mission in Madrid, Santiago and La Paz and Political Officer
in Tel Aviv, La Paz and Lima. He is a graduate of Yale University.
The President intends to nominate Robin Renee Sanders to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to the Republic of Congo. A career member of the Senior
Foreign Service, she has served as Director of Public Diplomacy for the
Africa Bureau. Sanders has served at the National Security Council on
two separate occasions, from 1989 to 1990, and from 1997 to 1999. She
has also served in Washington as Special Assistant to two Assistant
Secretaries of State for African Affairs. She has also served as
Special Assistant for Africa, Western Hemisphere and International
Crime and Narcotics for former Under Secretary for Political Affairs,
Ambassador Thomas Pickering. Her past overseas assignments include
service as the Chief of Political Sections in Dakar and Windhoek,
political officer in Khartoum, and head of the Consular Section in
Oporto. She received a bachelor's degree from Hampton University and
two master's degree from Ohio University.
The President intends to appoint William Brody to be a member of
the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board for a two-year
term. Brody has served as President of the Johns Hopkins University
since 1996, and he was previously the Academic Health Center at the
University of Minnesota. He earned a bachelor's degree and master's
degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a medical degree
and doctorate degree from Stanford University.
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