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Nominations Submitted to the Senate

May 27, 1977

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 23, 1977

ARTHUR W. HUMMEL, JR., of Maryland, a Foreign Service officer of the Glass of Career Minister, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Pakistan.

JOHN ANDREW LINEHAN, of Maryland, a Foreign Service officer of Class two, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Sierra Leone.

SAM YOUNG CROSS, JR., of Virginia, to be United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund for a term of 2 years (reappointment).

HERBERT SALZMAN, of the District of Columbia, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador.

HANS MICHAEL MARK, of California, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force, vice James W. Plummer, resigned.

XAVIER M. VELA, of the District of Columbia, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, vice Ronald J. James.

ROBERT ALAN FROSCH, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, vice James G. Fletcher, resigned.

Submitted May 24, 1977

JOHN G. WEST, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

ALBERT W. SHERER, JR., of Connecticut, a Foreign Service officer of the Class of Career Minister, for the rank of Ambassador while serving as the head of the United States Delegation to the preparatory meeting in Belgrade of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (GSGE) commencing June 15, 1977 and thereafter as a member of the United States delegation and head of the delegation's working group at the main GSGE meeting in the autumn.

MELISSA F. WELLS, of New York, a Foreign Service officer of Class two, to be the Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador.

Submitted May 26, 1977

MARVIN L. WARNER, of Ohio, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Switzerland.

THOMAS BYRON CRAWFORD LEDDY, of Virginia, to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund for a tern of 2 years expiring October 22, 1979 (reappointment).

JOHN GAINES HEIMANN, of New York, to be Comptroller of the Currency, vice James E. Smith, resigned.

ROBERT WALTER SCOTT, of North Carolina, to be Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission, vice Donald W. Whitehead.

NOMINATIONS--Continued

Submitted May 27, 1977

ANTONIA HANDLER CHAYES, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, vice Juanita Ashcraft, resigned.

VIRGINIA DILL MCCARTY, of Indiana, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana for the term of 4 years, vice James B. Young, resigning.

JAMES K. ROBINSON, of Michigan, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan for the term of 4 years, vice Philip M. Van Dam.

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/243270

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