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President Clinton this week nominated Jane E. Henney as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Henney is vice president for health sciences at the University of New Mexico. From 1992 to 1994, she was deputy commissioner for operations at the FDA. Henney also spent nine years at the National Cancer Institute. If she is confirmed by the Senate, Henney will be the first woman to head the FDA. She would replace acting commissioner Michael Friedman.
President Clinton also nominated Kenneth Prewitt, head of the Social Science Research Council in New York, to be director of the Census Bureau. Prewitt would replace Martha Farnsworth Riche, who left the bureau earlier this year amid political battles between the administration and Congress over the use of sampling in the 2000 census.
The president is giving former Laredo, Texas Mayor Saul Ramirez a promotion at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Currently assistant secretary for community planning and development, Ramirez will become HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo's deputy secretary if the Senate approves his nomination.
H. James T. Sears will be the executive director of the Defense Department's new managed care program office. Sears, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, will oversee TRICARE, the managed health care program for uniformed Services members and their families. Most recently he headed the CHAMPUS/TRICARE Division of Aetna Health Plans. He was also the Navy's deputy surgeon general and was commander of the Naval Medical Command. Also at DoD, Dr. Sue Bailey has been officially sworn in as assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs.
Thirty-year foreign service officer and federal employee Eric D. Newsom is moving up at the State Department to become assistant secretary for political-military affairs. Newsom will supervise arms control, non-proliferation, regional security and export control policy matters at State.
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Lawrence Goffney, Jr. is resigning as acting deputy assistant secretary of Commerce and deputy commissioner of patents and trademarks on June 30. Goffney, who has been at the Patent and Trademark Office for five years, will become a partner in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld in Washington.
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