For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 22, 2003
Personnel Annoucement
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate one
individual to serve in his administration:
The President intends to nominate Joshua Bolten to be Director of
the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Bolten currently serves as
Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the
White House. From March 1999 through November of 2000, Mr. Bolten was
Policy Director of the Bush-Cheney Presidential Campaign. He also
served as Policy Director of the Bush-Cheney Transition. From 1994 to
1999, Mr. Bolten served as Executive Director, Legal & Government
Affairs, for Goldman Sachs International in London.
During the Administration of President George H.W. Bush, Mr. Bolten
served for three years as General Counsel to the U.S. Trade
Representative and one year in the White House as Deputy Assistant to
the President for Legislative Affairs. From 1985 to 1989, he was
International Trade Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
Earlier, Mr. Bolten was in private law practice with O'Melveny & Myers,
and worked in the legal office of the U.S. State Department. He also
served as Executive Assistant to the Director of the Kissinger
Commission on Central America.
Mr. Bolten received his A.B. with distinction from Princeton
University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the
Stanford Law Review. Immediately after law school, he served as a law
clerk at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. During the fall
semester of 1993, Mr. Bolten taught international trade at Yale Law
School.
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