Comings and Goings

A regular feature of GovExec.com, Comings and Goings announces 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.

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Education Department Inspector General Thomas Bloom is heading over to the General Services Administration to become GSA's chief financial officer. Bloom held the same position at the Commerce Department a few years back. Bloom replaces Dennis Fischer, who took over the helm of GSA's Federal Technology Service after Commissioner Bob Woods retired this winter.

Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman has announced that David H. Harris, Jr. has been selected as associate general counsel for civil rights at USDA. The new position was created in response to criticism of the department's civil rights record, including its treatment of African-American farmers. Harris has been executive director of the Land Loss Prevention Project in Durham, N.C. since 1987. LLPP is a nonprofit public interest law firm that provides free legal representation to limited resource landowners threatened with the loss of land due to legal, environmental, or economic factors.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. David P. Keller is heading up the new Defense Logistics Support Command, which replaces the Defense Logistics Agency's Materiel Management directorate. Keller has served as DLA's executive director for logistics management and as its comptroller.

Michelle J. Chavez is now serving as the Bureau of Land Management's New Mexico State Director. She is the agency's first Hispanic state director. Previously, she was a district manager in Rock Springs, Wyo.

The Office of Personnel Management's Leigh Shein takes over as the agency's chief of staff, a bump up from her job as deputy chief of staff. Mark Hunker, who has worked in the Labor Department and the White House, will be her senior advisor.

Stephen Anderson, an associate professor at Tokyo's Center for Global Communications of the International University of Japan and Temple University, where he has served as a senior research associate focusing on the Internet and telecommunications, will join the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service at the Commerce Department. After a year of Mandarin Chinese language training in Virginia, his 1999 assignment will be as a commercial attache at the U.S. Embassy, Beijing.

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Sally Katzen, head of the government's top regulatory and information technology review office, is leaving her position to become deputy assistant to the president for economic policy. She has been administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a small but powerful part of the Office of Management and Budget, since 1993, but is moving on to become deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Valerie Lau, the embattled Treasury Department inspector general, has announced her resignation. She will stay on through march to complete a financial audit for the department.