For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 22, 2001
Nominations
President Bush to Nominate Three Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
three individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Diane Lenegan Tomb to be
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public
Affairs. Tomb is presently the Senior Vice President for
Communications of the Fannie Mae Foundation. Before joining
Fannie Mae, Tomb was the Director of the Public Affairs Practice and
Marketing Director for the Washington Regional Office of
Burson-Marsteller from 1994 to 1997. Tomb served at the U.S.
Department of Commerce from 1991 to 1993, first as an Associate
Director in the Office of Business Liaison, and then as the Director of
Public Affairs for the International Trade Administration.
She is a graduate of Mount St. Mary's in Maryland.
The President intends to nominate Ned L. Siegel to be a Member of
the Board of the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation. Siegel is the Chairman of NLS Communities,
Inc., a Florida based real estate and community development
company. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors
of the Marietta Corporation and Cenetec, L.L.C. Before
entering the real estate business, Siegel practiced law at the New
Jersey law firm of Kimmelman, Wolff and Samson. Siegel is a
graduate of the University of Connecticut and the Dickinson School of
Law.
The President intends to nominate Peter B. Teets to be Under
Secretary of the Air Force. Presently retired, Teets was the
President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation
from 1997 to 1999. He previously served as President and
Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation's Information and Services
Sector, a post he held since the Lockheed Martin merger in
1995. Prior to the merger, he was President of Martin
Marietta Space Group where he had served since 1963. He is a
Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and
the American Astronautical Society, as well as a 1999, inductee into
the National Academy of Engineering. Teets received both an
undergraduate and Master's of Science degree from the University of
Colorado.
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