For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 6, 2004

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Dionel M. Aviles, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of the Navy, vice Susan Morrisey Livingstone, resigned.

Charles W. Pickering, Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, vice Henry A. Politz, retired, to which position he was appointed during the last recess of the Senate.

Thomas Bolling Robertson, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Slovenia.

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