For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 25, 2001
Nomination and Appointment
President Bush Announces Two Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate one
individual and his intention to appoint one individual to serve in his
administration.
The President intends to nominate Darryl N. Johnson to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to the Kingdom of Thailand. A career member of the
Senior Foreign Service, Johnson has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs since June 2000,
and was previously the Political Advisor to the Chief of Naval
Operations at the Pentagon. Johnson served as the Director
of the Institute of Taiwan at Taipei from 1996 to 1999, as Deputy
Coordinator of the Office of the New Independent States from 1994 to
1996, and as Ambassador to Lithuania from 1992 to 1994. His
overseas assignments have included service in Warsaw, Beijing, Moscow,
Hong Kong and Bombay. Johnson earned Senior Foreign Service
Performance awards in 1999, 1998, 1992, 1991, and 1990 and Superior
Honor Award in 1992. He is a graduate of the University of
Washington and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand.
The President intends to appoint Antonio Andrade to be a Member of
the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health. Andrade
is the Group Leader of the Radiation Protection Services Group at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory where he has served since
1985. His past positions at Los Alamos include service as a
member of the National Security Programs Support Team, Technical
Assistant to the Associate Director for Defense Research and
Applications, Nuclear Reactor Projects Specialist in the Reactor and
Analysis Group, and Director of the Omega West Reactor. Andrade
received an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and a
M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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