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Nominations Submitted to the Senate

May 09, 1980

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 May 5, 1980

EDMUND SIXTUS MUSKIE, of Maine, to be Secretary of State.

Submitted May 6, 1980

WILLIAM CALDWELL HARROP, of New Jersey, a Foreign Service officer of Class one, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kenya and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Seychelles.

PHILLIP R. TRIMBLE, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Nepal.

C. WILLIAM KONTOS, of Illinois, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Republic of the Sudan.

MORRIS D. BUSBY, of Virginia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries Affairs, for the rank of Ambassador.

JOHN S. HASSELL, JR., of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, vice Karl Smith Bowers, resigned.

Submitted May 7, 1980

ALEXIS HERMAN, Director of the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank for a term of 3 years (new position).

Submitted May 9, 1980

GEORGE WILLIAM ASHWORTH, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, vice, Barry M. Blechman, resigned.

JOAN F. TOBIN, of the District of Columbia, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation until the date of the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1983 (reappointment).

JUDITH NELSEN KEEP, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, vice a new position created by P.L. 95-486, approved October 20, 1978.

MARILYN HALL PATEL, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California to fill an additional position created September 18, 1979, pursuant to the provisions of section 372(b) of Title 28 of the United States Code.

THELTON EUGENE HENDERSON, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, vice Cecil F. Poole, elevated.

A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice Warren J. Ferguson, elevated.

JUSTIN L. QUACKENBUSH, of Washington, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, vice Marshall A. Neill, deceased.

HELEN WILSON NIES, Of Maryland, to be an Associate Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, vice Donald E. Lane, deceased.

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/250203

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