Comings and Goings

A new, regular feature of GovExec.com, Comings and Goings will announce the arrivals and departures of top federal managers and executives. To submit an announcement, e-mail it to webmaster@govexec.com or fax it to 202-739-8511.

C O M I N G S

President Clinton decided this week to name Bill Lann Lee the acting chief of civil rights at the Justice Department, rather than give Lee a recess appointment. But Clinton did make a series of less controversial recess appointments:

• Richard W. Fisher as Deputy United States Trade Representative. Fisher is a Dallas, Texas businessman.
• Mozelle W. Thompson and Orson Swindle as Commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission. Thompson is currently principal deputy assistant secretary for government financial policy at the Treasury Department. Swindle served as President Reagan's assistant secretary of commerce for economic development.
• Kevin Emmanuel Marchman as assistant secretary for public and Indian housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has served in that position in an acting capacity since November 1995.
• Paul M. Igasaki as a commissioner and vice chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has served in that position since Sept. 30, 1994 and was renominated on on July 31, 1997. Without Igasaki, the commission would not have been able to function, because it did not have a voting quorum.

Anthony N. Palladino has joined the Federal Aviation Administration as head of the office of dispute resolution. Palladino, formerly a partner with the law firm of Smith, Pachter, McWhorter and D'Ambrosio, will be in charge of resolving protests and contract disputes for the FAA.

The Labor Department's Arnold Bresnick has taken over the reins of the interagency Information Technology Resources Board. He replaces Mary Ellen Condon, under whose leadership the board established a Web site, compiled "lessons learned," and developed a program management guide. The board conducts assessments of federal IT systems.

Amy Friend, general counsel to the House Banking and Financial Services Committee's Democratic staff, has been named assistant chief counsel for the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. She will cover legislative matters for the office.

G O I N G S

James Kallstrom, the FBI's New York office chief, is retiring at the end of this year. He is moving on to MBNA, a credit card and banking firm based in Delaware, where he will be a senior executive vice president. Kallstrom served as the head FBI investigator into the July 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.

Energy Department Inspector General John C. Layton, is retiring early next year. Layton garnered fame when he issued a report in 1996 on then-Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary's eyebrow-raising travel expenses. Layton had previously served as the Defense Department's inspector general.

K U D O S

Defense Commissary Agency employees Terry Zook, Vermell Jones, Claudia Tellone, Jim Clark and Estela Bennett, received the commissary agency's World Class Customer Service awards during ceremonies held December 9 at agency headquarters in Fort Lee, Va. The awards recognize agency employees who have gone the extra mile to satisfy customers by performing extraordinary customer service.