For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 19, 2001
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 Ronald E. Neumann to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Commonwealth of
Bahrain. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he
most recently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs from 1997 to 2000 and was Ambassador to Algeria
from 1994 to 1997. From 1991 to 1994, Neumann served as the Director
of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs. He has completed a variety of other assignments
both in Washington, D.C., and overseas and has received several award
for his service. He earned both an undergraduate and Master's degree from the University of California at Riverside. The
President intends to nominate Linton F. Brooks to be Deputy
Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Department of
Energy. He is currently the Vice President and Director of
Policy, Strategy and Forces Division at the Center for Naval Analysis,
a federally funded research and development center in Alexandria,
Virginia. During the Bush Administration, Brooks was
Assistant Director for Strategic and Nuclear Affairs in the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency and head of the U.S. Delegation on
Nuclear and Space Talks. He was Chief Strategic Arms
Reductions Negotiator, where he was responsible for final preparation
of the START Treaty signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow
on July 31, 1991. Brooks joined the National Security
Council after a thirty years in the U.S. Navy. He is a
graduate of Duke University and received a Master's degree from the
University of Maryland.
The President intends to nominate Benigno G.
Reyna to be Director of the United States Marshals
Service. He has served with the Police Department of the
City of Brownsville, Texas, since 1976, and has been Chief of Police
since 1995. He was named a Commissioner on the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement Officer Standards and Education in 1997, and became the
Presiding Officer in 2000. Reyna has served as a Regional Expert for
the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Counter Drug Technology
Assessment Center since 1997, and he has been a Law Enforcement Advisor
to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas since
1995. He is a graduate of the University of Texas -- Pan
American.
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