For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 24, 2001
President Bush to Nominate Five Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate five
individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Albert E. Smith to be Under Secretary
of the Air Force. He is currently Executive Vice President
of Lockheed Martin Space Systems. He joined Lockheed Martin
in 1985 and has held several positions including Director of
Communications Systems, Vice President of the MILSTAR Program and
President of the Space Systems Division. He is a former
member of the Central Intelligence Agency where he was chief engineer
of a CIA ground-station facility and later a division manager of
large-scale engineering projects. Originally from
Massachusetts, Smith is a graduate of Northeastern University.
The President intends to nominate Michael Montelongo to be Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management. He is
presently a Senior Project Manager with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in
Atlanta, Georgia, and has been with Ernst & Young
since1999. He was previously Chief of Staff and Director of
Small Business Services for BellSouth Telecommunications,
Inc. From 1995 to 1996 he was a Congressional Fellow in the
office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and from 1994 to 1995 he served
as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the United States
Army. Montelongo served as Chief of Staff and General
Manager of Operations General Management at Fort Bliss, Texas, from
1992 to 1994 and was a Senior Analyst and Associate Professor at the
U.S. Military Academy from 1988 to 1991. He is a twenty-year
veteran of the U.S. Army, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and
received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
The President intends to nominate Steven John Morello, Sr. to be
General Counsel of the Department of the Army. He is
presently the Vice President and General Counsel of Prechter Holdings,
Inc., in Southgate, Michigan. He served as Legal Counsel and
then General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at ASC Incorporated from
1991-1995. From 1978 to 1987, he served in the U.S. Army
Judge Advocate General's Corps as a Trial Attorney, Civil Attorney,
Administrative Law Attorney and Contract Attorney and was awarded an
Army Commendation Medal. He is a graduate of Georgetown
University, received a J.D. from the University of Detroit Law School
and earned an M.B.A. from Boston University.
The President intends to nominate
James Edward Rogan to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the
United States Trademark Office. He served in the U.S.
Congress from the State of California from 1997 to 2001 and was a
Member of the California State Assembly from 1990 to
1994. He is currently a Partner with the Venable Law Firm in
Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley and earned his J.D. from UCLA Law School.
The President intends to nominate
Odessa F. Vincent to be a Judge on
the District of Columbia Superior Court. She is currently
the Chief of the Narcotics Section at the Office of the U.S. Attorney
for the District of Columbia. She first joined the U.S.
Attorney's Office in 1987 but left in 1995 when she accepted a position
with the Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Chief Counsel
until 1998 and then returned to the U.S. Attorney's
Office. She has also served as a member of the Department of
Justice National Church Arson Task Force. Vincent is a
graduate of the University of the District of Columbia and received her
law degree from Howard University.
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