For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 1, 2003

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Richard Eugene Hoagland, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Tajikistan.

Sandra L. Townes, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, vice Sterling Johnson, Jr., retired

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