THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release September 3, 1993
PRESIDENT CLINTON TODAY NAMES EIGHT
TO SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE POSITIONS IN AGRICULTURE AND
TRANSPORTATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The President today appointed eight individuals to senior executive service posts in the departments of Agriculture and Transportation.
"I am pleased that these eight men and women have agreed to join our team and certain they will each work hard to support the great work being done by Secretaries Espy and Pena to make their departments work better for the American people," the President said.
Job titles and biographical sketches of the President's appointees follow.
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Grant B. Buntrock
Administrator/Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation
Service
Grant Buntrock is the director of the National Farmers
Organization, Washington office. His background is in family
farming. He served as the director of Cotton, Grain and Rice
Price Support Division from 1980 to 1985 and was the ASCS
assistant deputy administrator from 1977 to 1980. Mr.
Buntrock has also worked in the Common Program Provision and
as a grain marketing specialist for ASCS. He began his career
with ASCS as a compliance clerk and county executive director
in South Dakota.
Wayne H. Fawbush
Deputy Administrator/FMHA
Wayne Fawbush manages his family's farm in Oregon. He is
currently the co-chair of the Oregon Joint Legislative
Committee on Trade and Economic Development. He has served as
a State Senator from 1989 to 1993 and a State Representative
from 1977 to 1989. Mr. Fawbush holds a B.A. and M.A. in
Political Science from the University of Oregon.
(U. S. Department of Agriculture Cont.)
Lon Shoso Hatamiya
Administrator/Agricultural Marketing Service
Lon Shoso Hatamiya is the farm manager of H.B. Orchards
Company, a family farm in Marysville, California. He also
manages the Hatamiya Receiving Station, a peach inspection and
weighing operation. Mr. Hatamiya is the founder and president
of BHP Associates, Inc. in Sacramento, an international
consulting firm that assists clients in developing export
markets for agricultural products. Mr. Hatamiya holds an A.B.
from Harvard University and a J.D. and M.B.A. from University
of California at Los Angeles.
Patricia A. Jensen
Deputy Assistant Secretary/Marketing & Inspection Service
Patricia Jensen is the executive director and attorney for the
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota. She
has previously served as the executive director of the
Legislative Water Commission, the Minnesota Deputy Commissioner
of Agriculture, and the director of government relations for
the Pillsbury Company. Ms. Jensen has also been a partner in
the law firms of Jensen & Jensen and Popham, Haik, Schnobrich
& Kaufman. She holds a B.A. from St. Catherine's College and
a J.D. from the William Mitchell
College of Law.
Bonnie Luken
Deputy General Counsel
Bonnie L. Luken served as deputy assistant general counsel for
USDA's Food and Nutrition Division from 1988-89. Additionally,
her work experience with USDA dates back to 1976, when she
began as an Office of General Counsel (OGC) staff attorney.
Ms. Luken is currently at home with her two children. She
holds a B. S. from the University of Illinois.
Wilbur T. Peer
Associate Administrator of the Rural Development Agency
Wilbur T. Peer served as director of the Placement, Economic
Development, & Seasonal Farm Worker Program for the Phillips
County Community College in Arkansas. Additionally, Mr. Peer
has served as resource director and projects developer for the
Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corporation, where he
supervised the Youth Enterprise in Agriculture program. He
currently serves on the University of Arkansas Extension Task
Force for Sustainable Agriculture, and was appointed in 1990 by
then-Governor Clinton as commissioner for the Arkansas
Industrial Development Commission. From 1977 to 1987, Mr. Peer
farmed 150 acres of wheat, soybeans and produce crops in
Arkansas. He holds a B.A. from the University of Arkansas at
Pine Bluff, and a Masters from the University of Arkansas at
Fayetteville.
U. S. Department of Transportation
Antonio Califa
Director/Office of Civil Rights
Antonio J. Califa has been with American University since
August 1992 and was a member of the Justice/Civil Rights
Cluster Group for the Clinton/Gore Transition. He served as
legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in
Washington, DC from 1985 to 1992, and was deputy assistant
secretary/director for litigation, enforcement and policy in
the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education
from 1980 to 1985. Califa holds a JD from Yale Law School and
a BA in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Frank Weaver
Director/Commercial Space Transportation
Frank Weaver has been president of UNET Communications, Inc.,
a consulting firm specializing in marketing communications
satellite and launch vehicle systems, since 1990. He has held
a variety of positions in the U. S. satellite and launch
industry, including serving as director of General Dynamics'
Commercial Launch Services' Washington, DC office from 1988 to
1990. Weaver holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Howard University and an MBA in Marketing from the
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He serves on the
Board of Directors of the Washington Space Business
Roundtable, is a Senior Fellow in the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the National
Space Club.
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