[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 43 (Monday, October 29, 2001)]
[Pages 1557-1558]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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 Nominations  Submitted to the Senate

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The following list does not include promotions of members of the 
Uniformed Services, nominations to the Service Academies, or nominations 
of Foreign Service officers.

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 Submitted October 23

 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.

 Arden Bement, Jr.,

 of Indiana, to be Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, vice Raymond G. Kammer, resigned.

 John Marshall,

 of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for 
International Development, vice Terrence J. Brown, resigned.

 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).

 Melvin F. Sembler,

 of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to Italy.
 Submitted October 25

 James A. McDevitt,

 of Washington, to be U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Washington for the term of 4 years, vice James Patrick Connelly, 
resigned.

 Earl Norfleet Phillips, Jr.,

 of North Carolina, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 
of the United States of America to Barbados, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to St. Kitts and Nevis, 
Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, 
and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

 Johnny Keane Sutton,

 of Texas, to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas for the 
term of 4 years, vice James William Blagg, resigned.

 Richard S. Thompson,

 of Georgia, to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia 
for the term of 4 years, vice Harry Donival Dixon, Jr., resigned.

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 Withdrawn October 25

 Michelle Van Cleave,

 of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Brian E. 
Sheridan, which was sent to the Senate on September 21, 2001.