10 nominations — multiple organizations

Nominees (10)

• Margaret L. Taylor, of Maryland

  Legal Adviser of the Department of State

• Barbara A. Leaf, of Virginia

  an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs)

• Thomas G. Pownall, of Maryland

  a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term of two years.

• Paula Jean Casey, of Arkansas

  United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas for the term of four years vice Charles A. Banks, resigned

• Joan M. Plaisted, of California

  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kiribati

• Lieutenant General John A. Gordon, U.S. Air Force

  Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

• Reggie B. Walton, of the District of Columbia

  United States District Judge for the District of Columbia

• Polly Trottenberg, of Maryland

  an Assistant Secretary of Transportation

• J. Frederick Motz, of Maryland

  United States Attorney for the District of Maryland for the term of four years vice Russell T. Baker, Jr., resigned

• Diego C. Asencio, of Florida

  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Brazil

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