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Bush Taps Interim Antitrust Chief
by Bara Vaida
President Bush said late last week that he intends to designate R. Hewitt Pate as acting assistant attorney general to head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, replacing Charles James when he departs Nov. 22 to become general counsel at Chevron Texaco.
Pate joined Justice as deputy assistant attorney general for the division in July 2001 and has overseen the airline, transportation and energy sectors, among other areas. Before that, he was a partner on the litigation, intellectual property and antitrust team at the law firm Hunton & Williams, which he joined in 1990. At the law firm, Pate's specialty was antitrust law and litigation over unfair competition litigation.
He also taught law at the University of Virginia and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and former Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. According to news reports, a permanent replacement for James is not expected to be confirmed until next spring.
Deborah Majores, who was a key figure in the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft, is replacing Pate as deputy assistant attorney general.
More Changes On The Bush Team
Bush formally nominated Daniel Pearson to be a commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission for a nine-year term expiring June 16, 2011. Pearson is assistant vice president for public affairs of Cargill, where he has been a policy analyst since 1987. From 1981 to 1987, Pearson was a legislative assistant to former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., on agricultural issues. In 1979 and 1980, he worked on an 800-acre farm with his family in Ogilvie, Minn.
Bush intends to nominate General Mark Rosenker to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. Rosenker currently serves as deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House Military Office. Before that, he was assistant executive director for external affairs to the United Network of Organ Sharing and vice president of public affairs at the Electronic Industries Alliance.
Rosenker's wife, Heather, served as executive director of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, which was charged with making recommendations on Internet tax policy. She is now a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.
And the president intends to nominate Elizabeth Hoffman to be a member of the National Science Board for the remainder of a six-year term expiring May 10, 2008. Hoffman is president of the University of Colorado's campus and student system and currently holds a tenured faculty position in the University of Colorado at Boulder economics department.
Elsewhere in the administration, Al Vincent has been named the Commerce Department's associate administrator for telecommunication sciences and director of the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in Boulder, Colo. In that position, Vincent will serve as principal telecom adviser to NTIA chief Nancy Victory.
From 1998 to 2001, Vincent was director of business and systems technology and technology integration director for the TeleManagement Forum, a nonprofit that works to improve the operation of information and communications systems. Before that, he was a project manager and computing architect at Qwest Communications.
At the FCC, meanwhile, Thomas Chandler was named chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau's Disability Rights Office. Cheryl King was named to the new position of deputy chief. And former office chief Pam Gregory will become a special adviser to Chandler.
Getting Interactive At AOL
America Online has named Lisa Brown as executive vice president of interactive marketing. Brown was previously president and CEO of USA Electronic Commerce Solutions.
In her new position, she will build a group focused on identifying new and emerging markets. She also will work closely with the AOL brand marketing and broadband teams. Brown began her career with USA Networks in 1999 and helped establish its focus on the convergence of entertainment, information and direct sales.
In other industry news, BellSouth has named Belinda Grant-Anderson as vice president of policy resolution for regulatory and external affairs. She will coordinate policy issues between the company's business units to help implement regulations throughout BellSouth.
Grant-Anderson, who has been with BellSouth for four years, most recently held the title of assistant vice president of operator services. Before joining BellSouth, she was a consultant with the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company, a global management-consulting firm.
Farewells To Legislative Arms
After six-and-a-half years, Tiffany Moore, a Michigan native and legislative director to House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton, is leaving to become manager of government relations for Kellogg. She will start her new position Jan. 6. As legislative director to Upton, R-Mich., Moore served as chief policy adviser on education, foreign affairs, trade and civil rights, among other issues.
After five-and-a-half years, Margaret Camp, communications director to Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has left Capitol Hill to become senior writer for FBI Director Robert Mueller. Before working for Frist, Camp was the press secretary to Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and a spokeswoman at the Washington Post's Book World, the Post reported.
Trade Groups Appoint Leaders
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) elected two new board members at its Nov. 4 board meeting in Las Vegas to serve unfulfilled terms. They are: Larry Aiello, president and CEO of Corning Cable Systems; and Gregory Jones, general manager of Texas Instruments DSL.
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), meanwhile, appointed the following people as chairmen of various committees: Lee Caffin of Aventis Pharmaceutical, International Prosecution Practice Committee; Ken Stachel of PPB Industries, European Union Competition Regulations Committee; Richard Weiss of Nortel Networks, IP Licensing Committee; and Larry Welch of Eli Lilly, Harmonization and World Patent Committee.
Software Group Honors 'Cyber Champions'
The Business Software Alliance, which represents the world's leading technology companies, has recognized three world leaders as "cyber champions."
The group gave the annual awards to: Prime Minister Costas Simitis of Greece, Vice President Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt of El Salvador, and Henry Tang, the Commerce secretary of industry and technology for Hong Kong. The recipients were honored at a luncheon at which Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, honored earlier this year as a BSA cyber champion, was a guest speaker.
In other award news, Arnold Guevara, a member of the Energy Department's Office of Independent Oversight's cyber-security team, was nominated for a Service to America medal as an outstanding contributor in the area of national security and international affairs.
The recognition is the result of his development of a cyber-security oversight function for the department's weapons laboratories. He pioneered an approach to conducting cyber-security assessments that combines extensive network performance testing and significantly enhanced security at the labs.
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