[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 46 (Monday, November 21, 2005)]
[Pages 1741-1742]
[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 November 16

 Richard T. Crowder,

 of Virginia, to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, office of the U.S. 
Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, vice Allen Frederick 
Johnson, resigned.

 Marc L. Kesselman,

 of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, 
vice Nancy Southard Bryson.

 Peter N. Kirsanow,

 of Ohio, to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board for the 
term of 5 years expiring August 27, 2008, vice Ronald E. Meisburg.

 Claudia A. McMurray,

 of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and 
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, vice John F. Turner, 
resigned.

 Daniel Meron,

 of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Department of Health and 
Human Services, vice Alex Azar II.
 Submitted November 17

 Dennis Bottorff,

 of Tennessee, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 2011 (new position).

 Robert M. Duncan,

 of Kentucky, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 2011 (new position).

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 William B. Sansom,

 of Tennessee, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 2009 (new position).

 Howard A. Thrailkill,

 of Alabama, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority for a term expiring May 18, 2007 (new position).

 Susan Richardson Williams,

 of Tennessee, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority for the term prescribed by law, vice Glenn L. 
McCullough, Jr., term expired.
 Submitted November 18

 David Longly Bernhardt,

 of Colorado, to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, vice 
Sue Ellen Wooldridge.

 James D. McGee,

 of Florida, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of 
Minister-Counselor, to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to the Union of Comoros.

 Michael W. Michalak,

 of Michigan, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of 
Minister-Counselor, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service as U.S. Senior Official to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 
Forum.