[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 158 (Thursday, November 15, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11971-S11972]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CONFIRMATIONS

  Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate November 15, 2001:


                          Department of State

       Raymond F. Burghardt, of Florida, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
       Ronald Weiser, of Michigan, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
     and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Slovak Republic.
       J. Richard Blankenship, of Florida, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
       George L. Argyros, Sr., of California, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Spain, and to serve concurrently and without 
     additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and 
     Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Andorra.
       Larry Miles Dinger, of Iowa, a Career Member of the Foreign 
     Service, to be Ambassador to the Federated States of 
     Micronesia.
       Darryl Norman Johnson, of Washington, a Career Member of 
     the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Kingdom of Thailand.
       Lyons Brown, Jr., of Kentucky, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Republic of Austria.
       William D. Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, a Career Member of 
     the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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       Melvin F. Sembler, of Florida, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Italy.
       Charles Lawrence Greenwood, Jr., of Florida, a Career 
     Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-
     Counselor, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
     service as Coordinator for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 
     (APEC).
       Stephan Michael Minikes, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     U. S. Representative to the Organization for Security and 
     Cooperation in Europe, with the rank of Ambassador.
       Ernest L. Johnson, of Louisiana, to be an Alternate 
     Representative of the United States of America to the Fifty-
     sixth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
       William J. Hybl, of Colorado, to be Representative of the 
     United States of America to the Fifty-sixth Session of the 
     General Assembly of the United Nations.
       Nancy Cain Marcus, of Texas, to be an Alternate 
     Representative of the United States of America to the Fifty-
     sixth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
       Robert M. Beecroft, of Maryland, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, for the 
     rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of 
     Mission, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 
     (OSCE), Bosnia and Herzegovina.
       Charles Lester Pritchard, of Virginia, for the rank of 
     Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Envoy for 
     Negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 
     (DPRK) and United States Representative to the Korean 
     Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO).


                        African Development Bank

       Cynthia Shepard Perry, of Texas, to be United States 
     Director of the African Development Bank for a term of five 
     years.


                    Inter-American Development Bank

       Jose A. Fourquet, of New Jersey, to be United States 
     Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank for 
     a term of three years.


           United States Agency for International Development

       Constance Berry Newman, of Illinois, to be an Assistant 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.
       John Marshall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.
       The above nominations were approved subject to the 
     nominees' commitment to respond to requests to appear and 
     testify before any duly constituted committee of the Senate.


                             The Judiciary

       Odessa F. Vincent, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
     Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of 
     Columbia for the term of fifteen years.
       Foreign Service nomination of Terence J. Donovan.
       Foreign Service nominations beginning Keith E. Brown and 
     ending Olivier C. Carduner, which nominations were received 
     by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record on 
     October 16, 2001.

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