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White House Report, Wednesday, March 21, 2001
(Personnel announcements) (360)

BUSH NAMES AMBASSADOR AT LARGE FOR WAR CRIMES ISSUES

President Bush intends to nominate Pierre-Richard Prosper to be Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, the White House announced March 21.

Prosper is currently the U.S. State Department Special Counsel and Policy Advisor to the Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues.

Before joining the Department of State, Mr. Prosper served for over two years as a war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles.

He is a graduate of Boston College and received his Law degree from Pepperdine University.

BUSH NAMES COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM

The President intends to nominate Brigadier General Francis X. Taylor to be the federal government's Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador at Large, the White House announced March 21.

General Taylor is currently the Commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and served as the Director of Special Investigations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force Inspector General. He has served in the U.S. Air Force since 1970 and received both his undergraduate and Master's degree from the University of Notre Dame.

BUSH NAMES DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM)

The President intends to nominate Kay Cole James to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the White House announced March 21.

She is presently a Senior Fellow and Director of The Citizenship Project at the Heritage Foundation and was Chairman of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission from 1997 to 1999.

James was appointed in 1994 by then-Governor George Allen of Virginia to be the state's Secretary of Health and Human Services and was named as the Chairman of the Governor's Empowerment Commission that same year.

She served as Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1989 to 1990 and is a graduate of Hampton University.

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