For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 4, 2001
Personnel Announcements
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate two
individuals to serve in his administration and two individuals to serve
on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
The President intends to nominate
Robert D. McCallum, Jr. to be
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. McCallum
is currently a Partner with the Alston & Bird law firm in Atlanta,
Georgia, where he has served since 1973. He is a graduate of
Yale University, a Rhodes Scholar with a Master's degree from Oxford
University, and he received his law degree from Yale University.
The President intends to nominate
Colonel Paul V. Kelly to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs. He was most
recently the President of the Physical Evaluation Board for the
Department of the Navy and served as the Director of the Marine Corps
War College from 1994 to 1997. Kelly was Legislative
Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1990 to
1993 and was the Liaison to the Defense Appropriations Committees for
Marine Corps Matters from 1988 to 1990. A twenty-year veteran of the
Marine Corps, he has received numerous awards including the Purple
Heart. He is a graduate of Merrimack College and received
his Master's degree from Lowell Technological Institute.
The President intends to nominate
Erik Patrick Christian to be an
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of
Columbia. He is currently the Legal Counsel to the Mayor of
District of Columbia and served as Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and
Justice for the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2000. He
served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from
1989 to 1995 and then again from 1997 to 1999. A D.C.
native, he is a graduate of Howard University and Georgetown University
Law School.
The President intends to nominate
Maurice A. Ross to be an Associate
Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He
is presently Assistant Counsel in the Office of Professional
Responsibility in the Department of Justice where he has served since
1997 and was Senior Counsel at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation from 1993 to 1997. Ross served as Assistant U.S.
Attorney in Washington, D.C. from 1991 to 1993 and was Associate Deputy
Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990 to
1991. Originally from Washington, D.C., he is a graduate of
Yale University and Harvard Law School.
###
|