For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 18, 2002
Nominations and Appointment
President Bush to Nominate Three Individuals and Appoint One to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
three individuals and his intention to appoint one individual to serve
in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Kyle E. McSlarrow to be Deputy
Secretary of the Department of Energy. McSlarrow is
currently Chief of Staff to Secretary Abraham. Before
joining the Department of Energy, he was the Vice President of
Political and Government Affairs for Grassroots.com. From January 1997
to November 1998, McSlarrow served as Chief of Staff to Senator Paul
Coverdell and the Republican Conference. He has served as
Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel to Senate Majority Leaders Bob
Dole and Trent Lott and was an attorney with the Washington law firm of
Hunton and Williams where he practiced environmental and energy
litigation. He served at the Pentagon for three years as
Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army from 1985 to
1989. McSlarrow is a graduate of Cornell University and the
University of Virginia Law School.
The President intends to nominate the following individuals to
serve as the Government Representatives to the Board of Directors of
the African Development Foundation:
Claude A. Allen, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, for
the remainder of a six-year term expiring September 22, 2003 and upon
confirmation designate chairman.
Walter H. Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs, for the remainder of a six-year term expiring September 27,
2003.
The President intends to appoint Mark Griffon to be a Member of the
Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health. Griffon has
served as the President of Creative Pollution Solutions in New
Hampshire since 1992 where he performs consulting services in the
radiation and hazardous waste fields. He also presently
serves as Program Director for the Department of Energy's Medical
Surveillance Research program for the Gaseous Diffusion Plant Exposure
Assessment, and as a Member of the Advisory Committee for U.S.
Transuranium and Uranium Registries. Griffon earned a
bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master's
degree from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
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