For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 21, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Five Individuals to Serve in his Administration and Two People to Serve as Members of the Federal Judiciary
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate five individuals to serve in his administration and two people to serve as members of the federal judiciary.
The President intends to nominate Thomas M. Sullivan to be chief
Counsel for Advocacy at the Small Business
Administration. Sullivan has been with the National
Federation of Independent Business since 1998 first as Regulatory
Policy Counsel and currently as the Executive Director of the NFIB
Legal Foundation. From 1994 to 1998, Sullivan served in the
Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Originally from
Massachusetts, Sullivan is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk
University Law School.
The President intends to nominate Melanie Sabelhaus to be Deputy
Administrator of the Small Business
Administration. Sabelhaus founded and served as Chief
Executive Officer of Exclusive Interim Properties from 1986 to 1997,
when the company merged with four other companies and became
Bridgestreet Accommodations. She served as Vice President of
Global Sales Bridgestreet Accommodations until her retirement in
1998. Before forming her own business, Sabelhaus had a
17-year management career with the IBM Corporation. She is a
graduate of Ohio University.
The President intends to nominate William Winkenwerder, Jr., to be
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Currently
a health care consultant, Winkenwerder was previously Vice Chairman and
Executive Vice President of Health Care Services of Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Massachusetts. From 1996 to 1998, he was Associate
Vice President for Health Affairs and Vice President of Emory Health
Care at Emory University, and from 1992 to 1995, Winkenwerder was Vice
President and Chief Medical Officer for Southern Operations of
Prudential Healthcare. He served with Kaiser Permanente from
1988 to 1992 first as the Director of Quality Assurance and then as
Associate Medical Director, and from 1987 to 1988, he served as Special
Assistant to the Administrator of the Health Care Financing
Administration. A resident of Massachusetts, Winkenwerder is
a graduate of Davidson College, the University of North Carolina School
of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business at the University of
Pennsylvania.
The President intends to nominate William Schubert to be
Administrator of the Maritime Administration at the Department of
Transportation. He is presently the President of
International Trade and Transportation, Inc. in Pinehurst,
Texas. From 1986 to 1995, Schubert served with the U.S.
Maritime Administration. In 1986 he was appointed Special
Advisor to the Administrator and from 1990 to 1995, Schubert served as
the Maritime Administration's Regional Representative for the
southwestern U.S. From 1984 to 1986, Schubert was the
Master and UK Installation Manager of three offshore drilling units and
from 1974 to 1984, he was a licensed desk officer with Reynolds Metals
Company. Schubert is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy.
The President intends to nominate C. Lawrence Greenwood to have the
rank of Ambassador for his tenure of service as Coordinator for the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum. Mr. Greenwood has
held the Coordinator's position since July of 2000 and coordinates all
U.S. APEC activities with senior officials from the other 20 APEC
countries. From 1996 to 2000, Greenwood held the post of
Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo,
and from 1994 to 1996, Schubert was the Director of the Office of
Bilateral Trade Affairs in the Bureau of Economic and Business
Affairs. His previous overseas assignments include service
as an economic officer in Singapore, Tokyo and Dakar. He
received an undergraduate degree from Eckerd College and received
Master's degrees from Tufts University.
The President intends to nominate Clay D. Land to be a United
States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia.
The President intends to nominate Robert R. Crane to be United
States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.
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