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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release July 14, 1993

PRESIDENT NAMES LONGUEMARE AND CASELLAS TO DoD POSTS

President Clinton announced today that he intends to nominate R. Noel Longuemare to be the Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition, and Gilbert F. Casellas to be General Counsel of the Air Force.

"Today we are naming two more people to our Pentagon team," said the President, "both of whom are respected professionals who have achieved high levels of achievement in the private sector. I am grateful to both of them for coming into public service."

Noel Longuemare is Vice President and General Manager for the Westinghouse Electric Systems Group's Systems Development and Technology Divisions. He has been with Westinghouse since 1952, working in design and development engineering, line and project management, and has played a leading role in the development of modern radar and avionics systems for airborne and land mobile applications. He holds 8 patents and 17 patent disclosures, and is active in numerous technical and industrial societies. Among these is the Industry Steering Group for the National Security Industrial Association. Longuemare is Chairman of that group, which serves as a formal liaison with the Defense Department. In addition to a bachelors in engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, he holds an MSE from The Johns Hopkins University, and attended the Stanford Executive Program. He is married and has one daughter.

Gilbert Casellas is a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads. He also serves as an instructor in trial advocacy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and has spoken throughout the country on trial advocacy, professional responsibility, and the involvement of minorities in the legal profession. In addition, Casellas has held has held a number of national, state, and local bar leadership posts, including terms as President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association, among others. Before joining Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He holds a bachelors, degree from Yale University and law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Ada, have one daughter.

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release July 14, 1993

PRESIDENT NAMES TWO LABOR OFFICIALS

President Clinton announced his intention today to nominate Martin Manley to be the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Office of the New American Workplace, and John Calhoun Wells to be Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

"Martin Manley and John Calhoun Wells have both spent much of their lives trying to bring labor and management together in partnerships for growth," said the President. "That is exactly the kind of person that we need in these important positions. I am confident that they will bring that same spirit of cooperation to their work in my Administration."

Manley is a partner in the business and labor advisory firm of Waterman & Miller, a firm which assists union leaders and managers in restructuring the ownership, organization and operations of large, complex companies. Prior to joining Waterman & Miller, he had extensive experience in both management and labor. He was a Senior Manager at McKinsey & Co., an international consulting firm serving clients in the software, coal, food distribution, paper, architecture, auto, electric power, and computer systems industries. He also advised such unions as the United Steelworkers of America, the AFL-CIO, the Communications Workers of America, and the Television and Radio Artists. Manley, 40, attended the University of California, and graduated with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He and his wife, AnnaLee Sacenian, live in San Francisco with their infant daughter.

John Calhoun Wells is a consultant in joint union-management processes to improve workplace competitiveness, profitability, and employment security, largely in the oil and petrochemical industries. He was previously President of the John Gray Institute in Beaumont, Texas, and a Senior Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1979-87, he served in the state government in Kentucky, concluding with a four year term as Kentucky's first ever Secretary of Labor. Wells worked as an assistant to U.S. Senator Wendell Ford from 1975-78, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Humanities. Wells, 47, holds a B.A. from the University of Kentucky, pursued graduate studies at McGill University, and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

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