The following list does not include promotions of members of the Uniformed Services, nominations to the Service Academies, or nominations of Foreign Service officers.
Submitted November 6, 1979
JOSE A. CABRANES, Of Connecticut, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, vice John O. Newman, elevated.
ROBERT J. McNICHOLS, of Washington, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, vice a new position created by P.L. 95-486, approved October 20, 1978.
MARGARET JOAN GIANNINI, Of New York, to be Director of the National Institute of Handicapped Research (new position).
Submitted November 6
SUSAN J. WILLIAMS, Of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, vice Terrence L. Bracy, resigned.
Submitted November 7, 1979
RICHARD J. GREEN, of New Jersey, to be an Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (new position).
GEORGE FUMIGH, JR., of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Fossil Energy), vice Robert D. Thorne, resigned.
Submitted November 9, 1979
DONALD R. TOUSSAINT, Of Virginia, a Foreign Service officer of Class one, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Maldives.
Jimmy Carter, Nominations Submitted to the Senate Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248825