9 nominations — multiple organizations

Nominees (9)

• Katherine Andrea Lemos, of California

  Chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term of five years

• James D. Peterson, of Wisconsin

  United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin

• Robert M. Gates, of Virginia

  Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

• Dennis G. Jacobs, of New York

  United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit vice Wilfred Feinberg, retired

• Susan G. Esserman, of Maryland

  an Assistant Secretary of Commerce

• Day Olin Mount, of Virginia

  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Iceland

• William Lacy Swing, of North Carolina

  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Mary Beth Buchanan, of Pennsylvania

  United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania for the term of four years

• Gregory E. Jackson, of the District of Columbia

  an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen years

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