Comings and Goings

Every Monday on 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.

C O M I N G S

President Clinton has nominated David M. Walker to serve as Comptroller General of the United States at the General Accounting Office. Walker, a partner and global managing director at Arthur Andersen, was assistant secretary for pension and welfare benefits at the Labor Department during the Reagan Administration. He also served as acting executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. from 1985 to 1987.

The Small Business Administration is getting a new inspector general. Phyllis K. Fong, who has been with the office of inspector general at SBA for 15 years, is President Clinton's pick for the job. Fong started out at the office as associate counsel to the inspector general in 1983, working her way up to assistant inspector general for management and legal counsel in 1994.

Samuel Chambers is the new administrator of the Agriculture Department's Food and Nutrition Service. Chambers is moving to Washington from Michigan, where he headed up the Michigan Family Independence Agency. Chambers worked at the agency for 30 years.

Defense Secretary William Cohen has sworn in a czar to improve career development programs for the Defense Department's civilian workforce. Jerome F. Smith Jr., is the Pentagon's new chancellor for education and professional development. His task will be to improve the quality of training for civilians.

President Clinton has tapped Kenneth M. Bresnahan to be chief financial officer at the Labor Department. Bresnahan has been deputy CFO since 1996, before which he spent 17 years at the Food and Nutrition Service.

From the ranks of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Clinton has picked Chief of Operations Donnie R.Marshall to be the DEA's deputy administrator. Marshall has been at DEA for 29 years, where he has held positions in the Office of Professional Responsibility, the Aviation Division, the Statistical Services Section and the Domestic Operations Office.

G O I N G S

White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles plans to resign after Congress adjourns. He is considering a run for governor in his home state of North Carolina in the 2000 elections. Bowles has been with the Clinton Administration since 1993.

Paul C. Light, who headed up the Public Policy Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, is leaving the organization to become the director of the Brookings Institution's new Center for Public Service. Light, a frequent contributor to Government Executive, has been a visiting fellow at Brookings four times.

James B. Emahiser, a 32-year veteran of the civil service who most recently served as principal assistant deputy undersecretary of Defense for logistics, has gone to the private sector. He has taken a job at Everett, Wash.-based Intermec Technologies Corporation as general manager of its government systems division. Intermec is a major automated data collection contractor with the Defense Department.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Executive Director Maria Borrero will leave the agency if she is confirmed as director of the Office for Victims of Crime at the Justice Department. At the EEOC, Borrero oversees the day-to-day operations of the agency. At Justice, Borrero would direct programs that help victims cope with the aftermaths of crimes against them.

K U D O S

Chris Sale, former acting commissioner and deputy commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Michael P. Dolan, former deputy commissioner at the IRS, have been honored by Government Executive and the National Capital Area Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration as winners of the eighth annual Government Executive Leadership Award for outstanding federal service. Their stories are featured in the article "Scapegoats and Survivors" in the magazine's October issue.

The National Capital Area Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration has honored 10 additional government officials. Mortimer Downey, deputy secretary of Transportation, received the chapter's President's Award for Outstanding Public Service. The chapter's Elmer Staats Award for Accountability in Government went to people who have played a key role in implementing the Government Performance and Results Act: Steve App, Treasury Department; Jonathan Breul and Walter Groszyk, Office of Management and Budget; Dani Brzezinska, Transportation Department; Chris Mihm and Paul Posner, General Accounting Office; Mary Beth Nethercutt, Senate Appropriations Committee; and Virginia Thomas and Henry Wray, House Majority Leader's Office.