For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 25, 2005

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Robert B. Holland, III, of Texas, to be United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of two years, vice Carole Brookins, resigned.

Charles E. Johnson, of Utah, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, vice Janet Hale, resigned.

Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, vice John Charles Weicher.

Roger Dwayne Pierce, of Virginia, 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 Cape Verde.

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