For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 29, 2003
President Bush Announces Intention to Nominate
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
one individual and appoint one individual to serve in his
administration:
The President intends to nominate Michael J. Garcia of New York, to
an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Border & Transportation
Security). Mr. Garcia is currently the Acting Commissioner of
Immigration and Naturalization at the Department of Justice. He
previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export
Enforcement. From 1992 until 2001, Mr. Garcia served as an Assistant
United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where he
participated in the successful prosecution of four defendants in the
first World Trade Center bombing trial. From 1990 until 1992, Mr.
Garcia worked as a law clerk for New York State Court of Appeals Judge
Judith S. Kaye, and was with the Cahill Gordon & Reindel firm from 1989
until 1990. Mr. Garcia is a graduate of State University of New York
at Binghamton, earned his master's from the College of William and Mary
and his law degree from Albany Law School of Union University.
The President intends to appoint Colonel Merdith Wyndham Bolling
Temple of Virginia, to be the Federal Member of both the Susquehanna
River Basin Commission (Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania) and to be
the Federal Member of the Delaware River Basin Commission (Delaware,
New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania). Colonel Temple is currently
the Commander of the North Atlantic Division of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
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