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From Mail-Server@lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu Thu Aug 5 21:40:00 1993
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 18:54-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: Today's Appointments 8/5/93
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release August 5, 1993
HICKS TO HEAD AFRICA BUREAU AT A.I.D.
President Clinton announced his intention today to nominate
career Foreign Service Officer John F. Hicks to be Assistant
Administrator of the Agency for International Development, and
Director of A.I.D.'s Africa Bureau.
"John Hicks is a dedicated and capable professional who is
one of the Foreign Service's leading experts on African
development," said the President. "I expect him to do an
outstanding job in this position."
Hicks, a 19 year veteran of the Foreign Service, has been
the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for
Africa since 1991. In that role he was the Bureau's senior
career officer. He had spent the previous six months as Acting
Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Food and Nutrition
Assistance, and a year before that as Director of the South and
West African Affairs Office. From 1983-90, Hicks served in
Africa, at the U.S. missions in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Liberia.
He also has served at various times in Zambia, Ethiopia, and the
Sinai Peninsula, as well as at a secession of Africa-related
posts in Washington. He holds a B.A. from Morehouse College and
an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at
Johns Hopkins University.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release August 5, 1993
PRESIDENT NAMES ROBINSON TO HEAD MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
The President announced today that he intends to nominate
Dwight P. Robinson to be the President of the National Government
Mortgage Association in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
"Throughout his career in Michigan and here in Washington,
D.C., Dwight Robinson has distinguished himself as a leader in
the housing field. I am grateful for his service," said the
President.
Robinson has been with the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation since 1991, serving as Director and Acting Department
Head of the Affordable Housing Initiatives Department. Before
coming to Washington, he was an official of the Michigan State
Housing Development Authority for almost 15 years. From 1986-90,
he was the Authority's Deputy Director, and during 1988 he was
its Acting Executive Director. He began working for the state
as a housing management and development officer in 1976, after
having served in positions with the cities of Flint and Ann
Arbor. Robinson holds a B.S. in Urban Planning and Community
Development, and attended graduate school at Central Michigan
University.
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