For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 2, 2001

President to Appoint Espinosa
President Bush to Appoint Espinosa to be a Member of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health

President George W. Bush today announced his intention to appoint Richard Lee Espinosa to be a Member of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health.  Espinosa is a Sheet Metal Journeyman and Sheet Metal Shop Steward at Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico in Los Alamos where he has served since 1994.  He is a member of Sheet Metal Workers Local Union #49, and completed the chapter's apprentice program in 1998.  Espinosa served for two years in the U.S. Navy from 1990 to 1992 and was assigned to the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt's Sheet Metal Shop.

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