For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 23, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Four Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate four
individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Donald J. McConnell to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the State of
Eritrea. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service,
Ambassador McConnell has been serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Plans and Policy in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at the
Department of State since 2000. He served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Director of the
Political Directorate at NATO Headquarters in Brussels from 1996 to
2000, and was Chief of Mission to Burkina Faso from 1993 to
1996. He has held a variety of other posts in both
Washington, D.C., and abroad. Originally from Ohio, he
received his undergraduate degree from John Carroll University,
received a Master's degree from Stanford University and a Masters of
Public Administration in international relations from Harvard
University.
The President intends to nominate Stephen A. Cambone to be Principal
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Most recently
he served as Staff Director for the Commission to Assess U.S. National
Security Space Management and Organization while also serving as the
Director of Research for the Institute for National Strategic Studies
at the National Defense University. Cambone held the
position of staff director for the Commission to Assess the Ballistic
Missile Threat to the United States in 1998 and was a Senior Fellow of
Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies from 1993 to 1998. He is a graduate of
the Catholic University and received both a Master's and Ph.D. from
Claremont Graduate School.
The President intends to nominate Donald Cameron Findlay to be Deputy
Secretary of Labor. He is currently a Partner with the law
firm of Sidley and Austin in Chicago, Illinois, and served as Deputy
Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Chief of Staff from
1991 to 1992. From 1989 to 1991 he served at the U.S.
Department of Transportation as a Special Assistant to the
Secretary. A Chicago native, he is a graduate of
Northwestern University, received a Master's from Oxford University and
received his law degree from Harvard University.
The President intends to nominate Lori A. Forman to be Assistant
Administrator for the United States Agency for International
Development for Asia and the Near East. She has served as
the Director of the Japan Program for The Nature Conservancy since 1990
and is also a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo,
Japan. She served at U.S. AID from 1983 to 1990 as a Program
Officer where she coordinated the US-Japan aid
project. Forman is a graduate of Augustana College in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University.
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