For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 24, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Jennifer L. Dorn, of Nebraska, to be Federal Transit Administrator, vice Gordon J. Linton, resigned.

Sarah V. Hart, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, vice Jeremy Travis, resigned.

Howard H. Leach, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to France.

Bennett William Raley, of Colorado, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, vice Patricia J. Beneke, resigned.

James Edward Rogan, of California, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, vice Q. Todd Dickinson, resigned.

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