For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 28, 2005

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Phillip Jackson Bell, of Georgia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness, vice Diane K. Morales, resigned.

Susan P. Bodine, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency, vice Marianne Lamont Horinko, resigned.

John Hillen, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs), vice Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., resigned.

Darryl W. Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, vice Julie L. Myers.

David H. McCormick, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, vice Kenneth I. Juster, resigned.

Gillian Arlette Milovanovic, of Pennsylvania, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenpotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Macedonia.

Michael Retzer, of Mississippi, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the United Republic of Tanzania.

Ronald M. Sega, of Colorado, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force, vice Peter B. Teets, resigned.

Josette Sheeran Shiner, of Virginia, to be an Under Secretary of State (Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs), vice Alan Philip Larson, resigned.

Eric M. Thorson, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Small Business Administration, vice Harold Damelin, resigned.

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