Nominations Submitted to the Senate, Week Ending Friday, February 17, 2006

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 February 13

Robert Irwin Cusick, Jr., of Kentucky, to be Director of the Office of Government Ethics for a term of 5 years, vice Amy L. Comstock, resigned.

Donald J. DeGabrielle, Jr., of Texas, to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas for the term of 4 years, vice Michael Taylor Shelby.

James Lambright, of Missouri, to be President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2009, vice Philip Merrill, resigned.

Dennis R. Spurgeon, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy), (new position).

Submitted February 14

Jerome A. Holmes, of Oklahoma, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, vice Sven E. Holmes, resigned.

Jon T. Rymer, of Tennessee, to be Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, vice Gaston L. Gianni, Jr.

Milan D. Smith, Jr., of California, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, vice A. Wallace Tashima, retired.

Frank D. Whitney, of North Carolina, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, vice H. Brent McKnight, deceased.

Submitted February 17

Linda Avery Strachan, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice Mary Kirtley Waters.

Randall L. Tobias, of Indiana, to be Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, vice Andrew S. Natsios, resigned.

David F. Kustoff, of Tennessee, to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee for the term of 4 years, vice Terrell Lee Harris, resigned.

John Charles Richter, of Oklahoma, to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma for the term of 4 years, vice Robert Garner McCampbell, resigned.

Amul R. Thapar, of Kentucky, to be U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky for the term of 4 years, vice Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, resigned.