For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 2, 2001
Nominations
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 John B. Brown III to be Deputy
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department
of Justice. Brown is currently the Special Agent in Charge
of the Drug Enforcement Agency's Dallas Field Division, responsible for
overseeing DEA enforcement and intelligence operations in North Texas
and throughout the State of Oklahoma. Mr. Brown joined the
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the predecessor agency of the
DEA, as a Special Agent in 1972 and was assigned to the DEA Resident
Offices in Mexico, from 1984 to 1988. Brown has also served as DEA
Miami Group Supervisor in the Florida Joint Task Force, Group
Supervisor of the Caribbean Enforcement Group and Inspector and Senior
Inspector in the DEA Office of Professional Responsibility for the
Southeast Office. In 1995, he was assigned to DEA headquarters serving
as the agency's Deciding Official for Disciplinary matters, and in 1997
Brown was selected to Direct the El Paso Intelligence
Center. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor's degree from the State
University of New York at Brockport.
The President intends to nominate William Leidinger to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Management. Leidinger has served
with Price Waterhouse Coopers since 1997, first as a Senior Principal
Consultant and currently as MidAtlantic Business Development
Manager. From 1992 to 1996, he served as County Executive
for Fairfax County, Virginia. He was Executive Vice
President of Security Federal Savings in Richmond, Virginia, from 1986
to 1991 and was Executive Director of the McGuire Clinic from 1981 to
1986. He was also a member of the Richmond City Council from
1980 to 1990. Leidinger received an undergraduate degree
from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a Master's degree from the
University of Iowa.
The President intends to nominate Cameron R. Hume to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to
the Republic of South Africa. A career member of the Senior
Foreign Service, he is presently a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Mission
to the United Nations in New York. Hume has served as Chief
of Mission in Algeria from 1997 to 2000, Political Counselor at the
U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1994 to 1997 and Deputy Chief
of Mission at the Vatican from 1991 to 1994. He has completed multiple
assignments overseas and in Washington, D.C. including Chief of the
Political Section in Beirut and political officer in the Office of
Southern African Affairs. Ambassador Hume is a graduate of
Princeton University and American University Law School.
The President intends to nominate Frederick W. Schieck to be Deputy
Administrator of the United States Agency for International
Development. Currently a private consultant, Schieck was with the
Inter-American Development Bank from 1990 to 2000 where he served as
Senior Deputy Manager of the Bank's Operations
Department. From 1965 to 1990, Schiek served with U.S.A.I.D.
in a variety of positions in the U.S. including Deputy Assistant
Administrator in the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Deputy
Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Program and Policy
Coordination and Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for
Asia. He has also held multiple posts overseas including
Mission Director for USAID Philippines, Deputy Director and Acting
Director for USAID Guatemala and Chief of the Loan Office for USAID
Chile. Schieck received an undergraduate degree from
Georgetown University and an M. B. A. from Harvard University.
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