For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 4, 2001
Nominations
President Bush to Nominate Two Individuals to Serve in his Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate two
individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate R. Alex Acosta to be a Member of
the National Labor Relations Board for the remainder of a five-year
term expiring August 27, 2003. He is currently Deputy
Attorney General in the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of
Justice. In 1997, Acosta founded the Project on the
Judiciary, which he directed until joining the Department of
Justice. From 1995 to 1997, he was an Associate with
Kirkland and Ellis in Washington, D.C. where he participated in labor
and employment litigation. Acosta received both
an undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University.
The President intends to nominate Richard S. Williams to be
Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special
Political Affairs to the United Nations with the rank of
Ambassador. Williamson is a Partner with the Chicago law
firm of Mayer, Brown and Platt. His foreign policy
experience includes service as Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organizations from 1988 to 1989, U.S. Ambassador
representing the U.S. at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria,
from 1983 to 1985, and delegate to the U. N. Human Rights Commission in
1987, 1988 and 1989. Williams currently sits on the Board
of Directors of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the United
Nations Association. He has authored five books and over 100 articles
for a variety of periodicals. Williamson is a graduate of Princeton
University and the University of Virginia Law School.
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