For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 16, 2001
Nominations and Appointments
President Bush to Nominate Twelve Individuals and Appoint Seven Individuals to Serve in his Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate twelve individuals and his intention to appoint seven individuals to serve in his
administration.
The President intends to nominate James T. Morris for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Representative of the United
States of America to Food and Agricultural
Organizations. Morris is presently the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of IWC Resources Corporation and Indianapolis Water
Company. From 1973 to 1989, he served with Lilly Endowment,
Inc., as the Director of Community Development, Vice President of
Community Development, Executive Vice President and then President from
1984 to 1989. Morris was Administrative Assistant and Chief
of Staff to then-Mayor of Indianapolis, Richard Lugar, from 1967 to
1973. He has received an undergraduate degree from Indiana University
and a M. B. A. from Butler University.
The President intends to nominate James D. McGee to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to
the Kingdom of Swaziland. A career member of the Senior
Foreign Service, Mr. McGee has served as Counselor for Administrative
Affairs in Cote d?Ivoire since 1999. From 1995 to 1999, he
was Chief of the Administrative Section in Jamaica, and from 1992 to
1995, he was Chief of the Administrative Section in
Barbados. McGee served in Washington, D.C. from 1991 to
1992, as an International Relations Officer in the Office of Financial
Management Services in the Bureau of Finance and Management
Policy. He is a graduate of Indiana University.
The President intends to nominate Eve Slater to be Assistant
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health. Dr.
Slater is presently Senior Vice President for Clinical and Regulatory
Development of Merck Research Laboratories. Her
responsibilities include Worldwide Regulatory Affairs, Over the Counter
Product Clinical Development, Merck Research Laboratories Public
Affairs, Outcomes Research and Late Phase Clinical
Leaders. Slater held several positions with Merck Sharp &
Dohme Research Laboratories from 1986 to 1994, including Executive
Director of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Vice President for
Clinical and Regulatory Development. Her medical career
includes services as the Chief of the Hypertension Unit at
Massachusetts General from 1977 to 1983. Dr. Slater is a
resident of New Jersey and a graduate of Vassar College and Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The President intends to nominate Sally Stroup to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education. Stroup
is currently the Director of Industry and Government Affairs for the
Apollo Group Inc., and the University of Phoenix. From 1993
to 2001, she was a Professional Staff Member for the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Education and the
Workforce. From 1981 to 1993, Stroup was with the
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency first as a Staff
Attorney, then Senior Staff Attorney and then Senior Vice President of
Legal Services and the Chief Counsel. Stroup is a graduate
of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Loyola University School of
Law in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The President intends to nominate Franz S. Leichter to be a Member
of the Federal Housing Finance Board. Leichter has been a
member of the Federal Housing Finance Board since August of 2000. He
was first elected to the New York State Legislature as a Member of the
Assembly in 1968. In 1974, Leichter was elected to the State
Senate where he served until 1998. He is a graduate of
Swarthmore College and Harvard University Law School.
The President intends to nominate Allan I. Mendelowitz to be a
Member of the Federal Housing Finance Board for the remainder of a term
expiring February 27, 2007. Mendelowitz has served as a
member of the Federal Housing Finance Board since December of 2000, and
was appointed to be Executive Director of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review
Commission. He has previously served as Executive Vice
President of the Export - Import Bank of the United States and Managing
Director for International Trade, Finance and Economic Competitiveness
at the General Accounting Office. Dr. Mendelowitz received
his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and both his Master's
and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
The President intends to nominate Joseph Timothy Kelliher to be a
Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Kelliher
is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of Energy and
was formerly Of Counsel at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and
MacRae. From 1995 to 2000, Kelliher served as Majority
Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, and
from 1991 to 1995, he was Manager of Federal Affairs for Public Service
Electric and Gas Company. He is a former member of the staff
of Congressman Joe Barton from Texas and Director of the House
Republican Energy and Environment Task Force. He is a
graduate of Georgetown University and American University Law School.
The President intends to nominate Samuel E. Ebbesen to be a Member
of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation. Ebbesen has been President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Virgin Islands Telephone since 1998. Prior to
his current position, he served as Vice President of the Association of
the United States Army. Mr. Ebbesen retired as a Three Star
General from the U.S. Army in 1997, after thirty-five years of
service. A resident of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, he
is a graduate of City College of New York and received a Master's
degree in Public Administration from Auburn University.
The President intends to nominate Collister Johnson, Jr. to be a
Member of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for
the remainder of a term expiring December 17, 2001, and for an
additional term expiring December 17, 2004. Johnson is
presently a Senior Consultant with Mercer Management Consulting and
from 1993 to 1997, he was President and CEO of FastShip Atlantic,
Inc. He previously served with Mercer Management Consulting
from 1991 to 1993, and was Senior Vice President and Assistant to the
Chairman of WFS Financial Corporation from 1988 to
1991. Johnson was Senior Vice President of Presidential
Airways and Director of the Washington Dulles International Airport
from 1985 to 1988. In 1986, Johnson was appointed by the
Governor of Virginia to serve as Chairman of the Virginia Port
Authority, a position he held until 1994. He is a graduate
of Yale University and the University of Virginia Law School.
The President intends to nominate Arthur E. Dewey to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration. Dewey is
currently an Independent Consultant in Political and Military
Affairs. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Professor in Residence
at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute and from 1994 to 1997, he was
Executive Director of the Congressional Hunger Center, the private
sector successor to the U.S. House former Select Committee on
Hunger. In 1991, Dewey became the Director of the U.S.
Office of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance for the New Independent
States at the U.S. Agency for International
Development. From 1986 to 1990, Dewey was United Nations
Assistant Secretary General and UN Deputy High Commissioner for
Refugees, and from 1981 to 1986, he served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for the Bureau of Refugee Programs. Dewey was a
member of the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1981, and received an
undergraduate degree from West Point and a Master's degree from
Princeton University.
The President intends to nominate Kenneth Lawson to be Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement. Lawson is
presently an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Florida
in Tampa. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Military Prosecutor in
the U.S. Marine Corps and also served as a Special Assistant U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Lawson received
both an undergraduate and law degree from Florida State University.
The President intends to nominate Robert H. Roswell to be
Undersecretary of Health at the Department of Veterans
Affairs. A Colonel in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army
Reserve, Roswell has been Network Director of the Florida and Puerto
Rico Veterans Integrated Service Network of the Veterans Health
Administration since 1995. He also serves as a Professor in
the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the College
of Public Health at the University of South Florida. From
1994 to 1999, Roswell was the Executive Director of the Persian Gulf
Veterans Coordinating Board and from 1993 to 1995, he was Chief of
Staff of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Birmingham,
Alabama. Roswell has also served at Veterans Administration
facilities in Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Oklahoma
City. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and
Oklahoma University Medical School.
The President intends to appoint the following individuals to be
Members of the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage
Abroad for a term of three years:
Rabbi Zvi Kestenbaum of New York Albert Glickman of Maine Ari
Storch of Maryland Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Washington Laura Raybin Miller
of Florida Vincent Obsitnik of Virginia August B. Pust of Ohio
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