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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Thu May 13 18:34:28 1993
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 18:40-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: Todays Appointments 5.13.93
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 13, 1993
PRESIDENT NAMES FAA ADMINISTRATOR, AMBASSADOR TO CROATIA,
AND OFFICIALS AT FOUR OTHER DEPARTMENTS
(Washington, DC) President Clinton announced his intention today
to nominate G. Edward DeSeve and Nelson Diaz to be Chief
Financial Officer and General Counsel, respectively, of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, David Hinson to be
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and Peter
Galbraith to be Ambassador to Croatia.
"We are continuing to make real progress in filling key
positions in my Administration," said the President. "This group
of individuals whose appointments we are announcing today have
the kind of experience and expertise that our country needs."
Also today, the President announced his approval of the
appointments of John Horsley to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Transportation for Governmental Affairs, Kathryn Kahler to be
Director of Communications at the Department of Education, Ken
Thorpe to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Planning and Evaluation, and Susan Levine to be
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International
Development and Debt Policy.
Biographical sketches of the nominees are attached.
# # #
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NOMINEES
May 13, 1993
G. Edward DeSeve, an expert with more than 20 years
experience in public finance, is currently Senior Lecturer at the
Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and a
Director of the Drexel Partnership Interests-B Corporation. He
was previously Special Assistant to Pennsylvania Governor William
Casey, with a broad range of responsibility for oversight and
liaison with state agencies. Prior to that, he had been
President of the American Capital Group, a financial advisory and
investment banking firm, and Managing Director in charge of
municipal finance activites for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets.
He had previous government service in a variety of positions with
the City of Philadelphia, and as volunteer in the VISTA program.
DeSeve holds Bachelor of Science in Labor Economics from Cornell
University and Master of Government Administration in Public
Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Graduate
Division.
Nelson Diaz is a judge in the Trial Division, Court of
Common Pleas, First Judicial District of Pennsyvnia. He has
served on the bench since 1981, and has also lectured in law at
Temple University. Diaz, the first person of Puerto Rican
ancestry to be addmitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, was previosly
associated with the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr, and Solis-
Cohen. He was Special Assistant to Vice President Walter
Mondale, and preior to that, Ececutive Director of the Spanish
Merchants Association of Philadelphia. He has been a Public
Defender, a bilingual weekly columnist, and Associate Counsel of
the Temple Legal Aid Program. He holds a B.S. in accounting from
St. John's University and a J.D. from Temple University Law
School.
David Hinson is currently the Executive Vice President for
Marketing and Business Development at McDonnell Douglas
Corporation's Douglas Aircraft Company. He was formerly the
Chairman and CEO of Midway Airlines, which he had helped to found
after also starting Flightcraft, Inc. A former Naval Aviator,
Hinson has worked as a pilot for Northwest Airline and West Coast
Airlines, and was an executive of Air West and its sucessor
Hughes Air West before going into business for himself. Hinson
holds a bachelors degree from the University of Washington.
(more)
May 13, 1993
page two
Peter Galbraith has been a Senior Professional Staff Member
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 1979. His duties
have included serving as the Committee's principal advisor on
South Asian, Persian Gulf, and North African Affairs. He has
written a number of articles and reports for the Committee,
including 1992 report on Ethnic Cleansing and Bosnia-
Hercegovenia. Before coming to Washington, he was an Assistant
Professor of Economics and International Relations at Windham
College in Putney, Vermont, and part time instructor at the
School for International Training and at Kenne State (NH)
College. He was also Chairman of the Vermont State Democratic
Committee. Galbraith holds a B.A. from Harvard College, an M.A.
from Oxford University, and J.D. from the Georgetown University
Law Center.
John Horsley, who served in the Transportation cluster of
the Clinton/Gore transition, is County Commissioner in Kitsap
County, Washington and President of National Democratic County
Officials. He is also the former President of the National
Association of Counties and was the Founding Chairman of the
Rebuild America Coalition. Horsley, an Army veteran and former
Peace Corps volunteer, is a graduate of Harvard College, did
graduate work at Georgetown University, and completed a public
executives' program at the University of Washington's Graduate
School of Public Affairs.
Kathryn Kahler is Chairman of the Board of Governors and
former President of the National Press Club. She has also served
as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Press
Building Corporation. Kahler was previously a reporter for
Newhouse News Service, where she covered legal affairs and
environmental and energy affairs, and for the Nyack, NY, Journal-
News.
Kenneth Thorpe is an Associate Professor of Health Policy
and Administratin at the University of North Carolina School of
Public Health. Before coming to UNC in 1990, he taught for four
years at the Harvard University School of Public Health, where he
was Director of a Program on Health Care Financing and Insurance,
and for three years at Columbia University. Thorpe has also been
involved in a variety of health care reform efforts, including
the Pepper Commission, state panels in New York and
Massachusetts, and was formerly a staff member of the
Congressional Budget Office's Human Resources and Community
Development Division. He holds a B.A. from the University of
Michigan, M.A. from Duke University, and Ph.D. from the Rand
Graduate Institute.
(more)
May 13, 1993
page three
Susan Levine is Senior Vice President of the Investment
Banking Department at Lehman Brothers in New York, where she has
worked since 1984. She was formerly part of Lehman's Global
Finance Department, arranged finacing in Japanese financial
markets for U.S. and Canadian companies, and heped develop the
firm's business efforts in the People's Republic of China.
Levine worked for Bank America International and First Chicago
International. She also worked as an interpreter in China for
the National Geographic Society and the National Committee on
U.S.-China relations. A native of Fargo, North Dakota, Levine is
a graduate of Swarthmore College, holds an MBA from Columbia
University, and studies at Taiwan National University.
# # #