For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 5, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Dam as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Ferguson as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate two
individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Kenneth Dam to be Deputy Secretary of
the Treasury. He is presently a Professor of American and
Foreign Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He has
previously served as Corporate Vice President for Law and External
Affairs at IBM Corporation and was Deputy Secretary of State from 1982
to 1985. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas and
received his J.D. from the University of Chicago.
The President intends to nominate Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr. to be a
Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System. He will serve the remainder of the fourteen-year
term expiring January 31, 2014, as a representative of the Boston
Federal Reserve district. Mr. Ferguson was appointed to the
Board of Governors in 1997 and has served as Vice Chairman of the Board
of Governors since 1999. He is a graduate of Harvard
University and Harvard Law School, and he received his Ph.D. in
economics from Harvard University in 1981.
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