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THE WHITE HOUSE****

Office of the Press Secretary****

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****

April 11, 2012****


*President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts*

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to
nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:****

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**· ***Jay N. Anania *– Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname,
Department of State****

**· ***Gene A. Cretz *– Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana,
Department of State**

**· ***Susan Marsh Elliott – *Ambassador to the Republic of
Tajikistan, Department of State**

**· ***David J. Lane – *Rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as the United States Representative to the United Nations Agencies
for Food and Agriculture, Department of State**

**· ***Charles P. Rose *– Member, Board of Trustees of the Morris
K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation**

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The President also announced his intent to appoint the following individual
to a key Administration post:****

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**· ***Carol W. Greider *–* *Member, President’s Committee on the
National Medal of Science**

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*President Obama* said, “I am honored that these talented individuals have
decided to join this Administration and serve our country. I look forward
to working with them in the months and years to come.”****

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*President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals
to key Administration posts:*

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*Jay N. Anania, Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname,
Department of State*

Jay N. Anania, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank
of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as Management Counselor at the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad. From 2009 to 2011, he served at the State Department
as Executive Director of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and the Bureau
of South and Central Asian Affairs. From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Anania was the
Minister-Counselor for Management Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin,
where he served for seven months as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission. Prior
positions in Washington include Acting Chief Information Officer in the
Bureau of Information Resource Management (2005-2006) and Director of the
Office of Management Policy (2002-2005). Additional overseas posts include
assignments at the U.S. Consulates General in Hong Kong and Tijuana,
Mexico; U.S. Embassies in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, and at the
U.S Interests Section in Havana, Cuba. Mr. Anania holds a B.A. from Kenyon
College and an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.***
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*Ambassador Gene A. Cretz, Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana,
Department of State*

Ambassador Gene A. Cretz, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service
with the rank of Minister-Counselor, is currently the U.S. Ambassador to
Libya. In 2008, Ambassador Cretz served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. From 2004 to 2007, he was the
Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. From 2003 to
2004, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Damascus where he served as
Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires. From 2001 to 2003, he was
Minister-Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy
in Egypt. Other overseas assignments include service in Beijing, New
Delhi, and Islamabad. Assignments in Washington include State Department
posts in the Bureau of International Organizations, the Operations Center,
and in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. From 1975 to 1977, Ambassador
Cretz served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan. He received a B.A.
from the University of Rochester and a M.Sc. from the State University
College at Buffalo.****

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*Susan Marsh Elliott, Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan,
Department of State*

Susan Marsh Elliott, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the
rank of Counselor, currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State.
Prior to this role, Ms. Elliott served as Minister-Counselor for Political
Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2009-2010) and as Principal Officer
at the U.S. Consulate General in Belfast (2007-2009). Other assignments
have included Deputy Executive Secretary (2005-2007), Office Director of
the Executive Secretariat Staff (2003-2005), Visa Section Chief at the U.S.
Embassy in Athens (2001-2003), Deputy Economic Counselor at the U.S.
Embassy in Athens (1999-2001), and Desk Officer in the Office of the
Coordinator for Regional Conflicts in the New Independent States
(1994-1995). Ms. Elliott joined the Foreign Service in 1990 after serving
as a nurse at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Ms. Elliott received a B.S.
from Skidmore College, an M.S. from Russell Sage College, and a D.S.N. from
Indiana University.****

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*David J. Lane, Nominee for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as the United States Representative to the United Nations Agencies
for Food and Agriculture, Department of State*

David J. Lane* *currently serves as Assistant to the President and
Counselor to the Chief of Staff at the White House. From 2007 to 2011, he
was President and Chief Executive Officer of ONE. Prior to joining ONE,
Mr. Lane was the Director of Public Policy and External Affairs and
Director of the East Coast Office for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
From 1993 to 2000, he served in a number of senior positions in the federal
government, including Executive Director of the National Economic Council
at the White House and Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
He received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.P.A. from the
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.****

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*Charles P. Rose, Nominee for Member, Board of Trustees of the Morris K.
and Stewart L. Udall Foundation*

Charles P. Rose is a partner at the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP,
where he focuses on representing businesses, educational institutions, and
Indian tribal governments in labor and employment matters, education law
and regulatory compliance. Mr. Rose was General Counsel of the U.S.
Department of Education from 2009 until 2011, where he also served as the
Secretary's designee to the Board of Trustees of the Udall Foundation.
Before joining the Department of Education, he was a founding partner of
Franczek Radelet PC in Chicago. Mr. Rose is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a member of the National
Association of College and University Attorneys, and a member of the
National and Illinois Councils of School Attorneys. He was a founding
member of the Board of Directors of Advance Illinois and formerly served on
the Chicago Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves. Mr.
Rose received the Illinois Association of School Administrators Exemplary
Service to Education Award in 2011 and Champion of Public Education Award
from FED-ED in 2009. He was elected as Fellow of the College of Labor &
Employment Lawyers in 2008 and received the Vision in Education Award from
ED-RED in 2006. Mr. Rose received a B.A. in Economics from Villanova
University and a J.D. from DePaul University.****

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*President Obama also announced his intent to appoint the following
individual to a key Administration post:***

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*Dr. Carol W. Greider, Appointee for Member, President’s Committee on the
National Medal of Science*

Dr. Carol W. Greider is the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of
Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Institute for Basic Biomedical
Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2009, Dr.
Greider won the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Drs. Elizabeth Blackburn and
Jack Szostak for their work on telomeres as well as telomerase, an enzyme
that maintains chromosome ends, which Drs. Greider and Blackburn discovered
in 1984. Before working at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Greider joined Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory as a Fellow in 1988 and served as an Investigator from
1994 to 1997. Dr. Greider received a B.A. in Biology from the University
of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the
University of California, Berkeley.****

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