For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 6, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Thelma J. Askey, of Tennessee, to be Director of the Trade and Development Agency, vice J. Joseph Grandmaison.

Maria Cino, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, vice Marjory E. Searing.

Charles A. James, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Joel I. Klein, resigned.

Piyush Jindal, of Louisiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, vice Margaret Ann Hamburg, resigned.

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