For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 14, 2001
Nominations and Appointments
President Bush to Nominate Four Individuals and Appoint Five Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate four
individuals and his intention to appoint five individuals to serve in
his administration.
The President intends to nominate Francis Joseph Ricciardone, Jr.
to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States
of America to the Republic of the Philippines and the Koror Republic of
Palau. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ricciardone has
been serving as Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
since 1999. His previous overseas assignment include service
as Deputy Chief of Mission in Ankara from 1995 to 1999, Deputy Chief of
Mission in Amman from 1991 to 1993, and Political Office in
Cairo. He has served in Washington, D.C., as Staff Director
for the Director General's Policy Coordination Office,
Political/Economic Officer in the Office of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria
Affairs and International Relations Officer and Special Assistant in
the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Ricciardone is a
graduate of Dartmouth College.
The President intends to nominate Sean O?Keefe to be Administrator
of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. O?Keefe is currently the Deputy Director of
the White House Office of Management and Budget. Previously he served
as the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at
the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs. Additionally he served as the Director of National
Security Studies which provides executive education programs for senior
military and civilian Department of Defense managers. Before
joining Syracuse University, O?Keefe was Professor of Business
Administration and Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Research
and Graduate Education at Pennsylvania State
University. O?Keefe was appointed as the Secretary of the
Navy in July 1992, had served as Comptroller and Chief Financial Office
of the Department of Defense since 1989. Before joining the
Department of Defense, he served on the staff of the U.S. Senate
Appropriations Committee for eight years and was Staff Director of the
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. He received an
undergraduate degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana,
and a Master's degree in Public Administration from The Maxwell School
at Syracuse University.
The President intends to nominate Nancy Southard Bryson to be
General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. Bryson is
currently a Partner with Crowell and Moring's Natural Resources and
Environment and co-chair of the firm's Biotechnologies
practice. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Bryson was
a staff attorney and Assistant Counsel for the Appellate Litigation in
the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Solicitor's Office
at the Department of Labor. Additionally, she served as
Assistant Chief of the Land and Natural Resources Division's
Environmental Defense Sections at the Department of
Justice. She is a graduate of Boston University and the
Georgetown University School of Law.
The President intends to nominate Vickers B. Meadows to be
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for
Administration. Most recently, Meadows was Special Assistant
to the President and Director of White House Management and Director of
Administration for the Bush-Cheney Transition. From 1995 to
2000, she was Director of Administration for then-Governor Bush. She
served at the Department of Transportation from 1989 to 1993, as Deputy
Director and then Director of the Executive Secretariat. From 1985 to
1989, Meadows served in the White House as Procurement Officer and
Director of Presidential Gifts and then Special Assistant to the Vice
President for Administration. She is a graduate of Green
Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont.
The President intends to appoint the following four individuals to
serve as Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
for the remainder of three-year terms expiring September 22, 2004.
John Willard Johnson of Houston, Texas Jan Donnelly O?Neill of
Midland, Texas Donald Edward Vermeil of Palo Alto, California Steven
Joel Uhlfelder of Tallahassee, Florida
The President intends to appoint Jennifer Cabranes Braceras to be a
Member of the United States Commission on Civil
Rights. Braceras is presently the John M. Olin Fellow in Law
at Harvard University Law School and was previously the Charles
Hamilton Houston Fellow. From 1996 to 2000, she was an
Associate with the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray. She is
a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Harvard Law School.
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