For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 6, 2003
Personnel Announcement
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate
three individuals and designate three individuals to serve in his
administration:
The President intends to nominate Jeffrey Shane of the District of
Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy. Mr.
Shane is currently the Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation at
the Department of Transportation. In this capacity, he serves as the
Secretary of Transportation's principal policy advisor and as the
Director of the Department's Office of Intermodalism. Prior to his
appointment at the Department of Transportation in March of 2002, he
was a partner at the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
Earlier in his career, he has served both as Deputy Assistant Secretary
and Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the
Department of Transportation. He also has served as the Chairman of
the Commission on Air Transport of the International Chamber of
Commerce and as Chairman of the Military Airlift Committee of the
National Defense Transportation Association. He is a graduate of
Princeton University and earned his law degree from Columbia
University.
The President intends to nominate Lino Gutierrez of Florida, to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to Argentina. Ambassador Gutierrez is a career member of the
Senior Foreign Service. He currently serves as Senior Advisor for
International Affairs at the National War College at National Defense
University. Previously, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Past foreign
assignments include: U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, Deputy Chief of
Mission in Nassau, Chief of the Embassy's Internal Political Unit in
Paris, and Chief of the Political Section in Port-au-Prince.
Ambassador Gutierrez earned both his bachelor's degree and his master's
degree from the University of Alabama.
The President intends to nominate Jeffrey Lunstead of the District
of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri
Lanka and the Republic of Maldives. A career member of the Senior
Foreign Service, Dr. Lunstead currently serves as the Director of the
Office of Environmental Policy at the Department of State. Prior to
this, he served as the Afghanistan Coordinator in the Bureau of South
Asian Affairs and as the Director of the Office of Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Bangladesh Affairs. Dr. Lunstead is a graduate of the
University of Notre Dame and earned his Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania.
The President intends to designate Eduardo Aguirre, Jr. of Texas,
to be Acting Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration
Service at the Department of Homeland Security. He is currently the
Vice Chairman and First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the
United States. Mr. Aguirre previously worked for Bank of America for
24 years. Mr. Aguirre was named "One of the 100 most Influential
Hispanics in the Nation" by Hispanic Business Magazine for three
consecutive years. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University.
The President intends to re-designate LaSalle Doheny Leffall, Jr.
of the District of Columbia, to be the Chair of the President's Cancer
Panel, for a one-year term. Dr. Leffall currently serves as a Charles
R. Drew Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of
Medicine and Howard University Hospital. He is a graduate of Florida A&M;
University and earned his medical degree from the Howard University
Medical School.
The President intends to designate Michael F. Duffy of the District
of Columbia, to be Chairman of the Federal Mine Safety and Health
Review Commission, of which he is currently a member.
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