For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 9, 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 Vincent Martin Battle to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to the Republic of Lebanon. A career member of the
Senior Foreign Service, Battle has been the Director of the Office of
Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources at
the Department of State since 1999. From 1994 to 1996 he was Chief of
the Senior Level Division in the Bureau of Human Resources and served
as Deputy Chief of Mission in Beirut from 1991 to 1994. He
has held a variety of other posts overseas and has received several
awards including a Senior Foreign Service Performance Award in
1998. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, received a
Diploma in Education from Makerere University in Uganda, and earned a
Master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
The President intends to nominate Congressman Asa Hutchinson to be
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration at the Department
of Justice. He currently represents the Third District of
Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he serves on the
Speaker's Task Force for a Drug Free America. Before being
elected in 1996, he practiced law in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with the law
firm of Karr & Hutchinson. He was appointed by former
President Reagan as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas
in 1982 and he served in that capacity until 1985. Hutchinson received
an undergraduate degree from Bob Jones University and a J.D. from the
University of Arkansas.
The President intends to nominate
Brian Carlton Roseboro to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial
Markets. He is presently the Deputy Director of Market Risk
Management with the American International Group in New York, New
York. He was Director of the Risk Management Advisor at SBC Warburg Dillon Reed from 1993 to 1996 and was with the First National
Bank of Chicago from 1990 to 1993. From 1983 to 1986 he held
several positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York including
Chief Dealer for Foreign Exchange Trading. Roseboro is a
graduate of the University of Rochester and earned an M.B.A. from
Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
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