For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 25, 2003
Personnel Announcement
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate one
individual to serve in his administration:
The President intends to nominate Barbara McConnell Barrett of
Arizona, to be Secretary of the Air Force. Previously, Ms. Barrett
served as President and CEO of the American Management Association and
was a teaching Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
She was a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the
Services (DACOWITS), an advisory group to then-Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin
Powell. Earlier in her career she served as a partner for Evans,
Kitchel & Jenckes, a Phoenix based law firm. Ms. Barrett's previous
presidential appointments include Chairman of the United States
Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Deputy Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration, and Vice Chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board. She earned her bachelor's degree, her master's
degree and her J.D. from Arizona State University.
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