For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 3, 2001
Nominations
President Bush to Nominate Two Individuals to Serve in His Administration
The President announced his intention to nominate two individuals to
serve as members of his administration.
The President intends to nominate Michael D. Brown to be Deputy
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Brown
was appointed FEMA General Counsel in February, and Acting
Deputy Director in September, where he has served as the Chairman of
the Consequences Management Working Group. From 1991 to
2001, Brown was the Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse
Association, an international subsidiary of the national governing
organization of the U.S. Olympic Committee. From 1988 to
1991, Brown was General Counsel to Dillingham Insurance, Suits
Drilling, Suits Rig, Latigo Energy, Dillingham Ranch and Dillingham
Enterprises, and from 1980 to 1988, he was an attorney in private
practice. In 1978 to 1980, he worked for the Oklahoma State
Senate Finance Committee, and from 1975 to 1978, Brown worked for the
City of Edmond, Oklahoma, overseeing the emergency services
divisions. Brown is a graduate of Central State University
and Oklahoma City University Law School.
The President intends to nominate Ruth Lewis Griffin to be a
Commissioner of the International Joint Commission for the United
States and Canada. Griffin is the Executive Councilor for the Third
District of New Hampshire and has been a member of the Executive
Councilor since 1987. She was a Member of the New Hampshire
State Senate, the New Hampshire House of Representatives and has served
New Hampshire in elected office for a total of 35
years. Griffin is a member of the Governor's Commission on
Intermodal Transportation which is the architect of the New Hampshire
Highway Plan and the New Hampshire Health Services Planning and Review
Board. She has served on the Portsmouth Board of Education, the
Portsmouth Police Commission and is currently the Portsmouth Housing
Authority Commissioner. A registered nurse, she is a
graduate of the Wentworth Hospital School of Nursing.
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