Comings and Goings

Every Monday on GovExec.com, Comings and Goings announces the arrivals and departures of top federal managers and executives. To submit an announcement, e-mail it to webmaster@govexec.com or fax it to 202-739-8511.

C O M I N G S

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has named his key staff at DOE. David Goldwyn, who worked for Richardson at the United Nations, will serve as counselor to the secretary. Another United Nations veteran, Rebecca Gaghen, will be deputy chief of staff for international policy. LeeAnn Inadomi will be deputy chief of staff for administration and domestic policy. Inadomi has been senior policy advisor for management at DOE since January. Richardson announced two dozen additional top management appointments last week.

President Clinton has recess appointed Fred Feinstein as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Feinstein has been acting general counsel since March, when his official four-year term expired. Clinton nominated attorney Laurence Cohen to be general counsel, but the Senate has not confirmed Cohen. Feinstein can serve through the 1999 congressional session.

Mary J. Wamsley has been appointed as the 1999 chairwoman of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS). Wamsley succeeds Elizabeth T. Bilby in the non-salaried position. Wamsley is the assistant chief of police of the Colorado Police Department. DACOWITS advises the Secretary of Defense on policies relating to women in the armed forces.

Lawyer Elliot Maxwell is the Commerce Department's first special adviser for the emerging digital economy. Maxwell comes to Commerce from the Federal Communications Commission, where he was deputy chief of the office of plans and policy. In the new post, he will help Commerce develop a role in electronic commerce.

G O I N G S

Doris Matsui, deputy director of the White House office of public liaison, will join the Washington, D.C., law firm of Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, pllc, in December. Matsui, who served at the White House for six years, will be the firm's director of government relations and public policy.

The Environmental Protection Agency has fired Vernice Miller, an environmental activist recently hired to handle the agency's environmental justice investigations, for listing an apparently false master's degree on her application to work at the agency. It is a felony under Title 18 of the U.S. Code to make a false statement to a federal agency.

K U D O S

NASA's Langley Research Center is the first federal work site to be selected for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Voluntary Protection Program Star Program. Langley has injury rates about 70 percent below of similar private sector laboratories. OSHA hopes to expand the program to other federal sites, which can avoid programmed OSHA inspections if they qualify for the voluntary program.