For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 11, 2004

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Romolo A. Bernardi, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, vice Alphonso R. Jackson.

Tina Westby Jonas, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), vice Dov S. Zakheim, resigning.

Lewis W. Lucke, of Texas, 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 Kingdom of Swaziland.

Earle I. Mack, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Finland.

Jackson McDonald, of Florida, 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 Guinea.

Thomas Hill Moore, of Florida, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for a term of seven years from October 27, 2002. (Reappointment)

John M. Ordway, of California, 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 Kazakhstan.

Juan Carlos Zarate, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Kenneth Lawson, resigned.

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