For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 17, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Eight Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
eight individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Michael J. Garcia to be Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement. Garcia has
served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New
York since 1992. He was a law clerk for the Honorable Judith S. Kaye
on the New York State Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1992 and was with
the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York, New York, from
1989 to 1990. A New York native, he is a graduate of the
State University of New York at Binghamton, received his Master's from
the College of William and Mary and his law degree from Albany Law
School of Union University.
The President intends to nominate
Mary Sheila Gall to be the Chairman
of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. She is currently
serving her second term as a Member of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission, appointed once by former President Bush and once by former
President Clinton and has served as Vice Chairman of the Commission for
five years. From 1989 to 1991, she headed the Human Development
Services Agency while holding the position of Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services and was Counselor to the Director of the
Office of Personnel Management from 1986 to 1989. She served
as Deputy Policy Advisor to Vice President Bush from 1981 to
1986. She is a graduate of Rosary Hill College in Buffalo,
New York, and received her Master's degree from Old Dominion
University.
The President intends to nominate Anne O. Krueger to be a Member of the
Council of Economic Advisors. She is currently a Senior
Fellow at the Hoover Institute, the Herald and Caroline Ritch Professor
of Humanities and Science in the Department of Economics at Stanford
University and Director of the Center for Research and Economic
Development and Policy Reform. Krueger served as a Professor of
Economics at Duke University from 1987 to 1993 and was the Vice
President of economics and research at the World Bank from 1982 1o
1986. She holds her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
The President intends to nominate
Jack Dyer Crouch, II, to be Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. He
is presently an Associate Professor at Southwest Missouri State
University in the Department of Defense and Strategic
Studies. Crouch was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Policy from 1990 to 1992 where he was
awarded the Department's Distinguished Public Service Award, and he
served former Senator Malcolm Wallop from 1986 to 1990. From
1985 to 1986, he served at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
as an advisor for the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Arms
Talks.
The President intends to nominate
Russ Whitehurst to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Educational Research and
Improvement. He serves as the lead professor and Chair of
the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook where he has taught since 1970. He is a graduate
of East Carolina University and received a Master's and Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois.
The President intends to nominate David Garman to be Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy. He is currently Chief of Staff to Senator Frank
Murkowski and served as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 1995 to 1998. He
is a graduate of Duke University and received a Master's degree from
Johns Hopkins University.
The President intends to nominate
Neal A. McCaleb to be Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. He presently
serves as Secretary of Transportation for the State of Oklahoma after
being appointed by Governor Frank Keating in 1995 and held the same
post from 1987 to 1990 under Governor Henry Bellmon. He
served four terms in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and was
Republican Floor Leader for four years. He was appointed by
President Richard Nixon to sit on the National Council on Indian
Opportunity and was named a Commissioner on the President's Commission
on Indian Reservation Economics by President Reagan. He is a
graduate of Oklahoma State University.
The President intends to nominate Rosario Marin to be Treasurer of the
United States. She currently holds a seat on the City
Council of Huntington Park, California, and is a Public Relations
Manager for AT&T.; Marin served Governor Pete Wilson in several
positions including Deputy Director of the Governor's Office of
Community Relations and Assistant Deputy Director of the California
State Department of Social Services. She is a graduate of
California State University in Los Angeles.
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