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

New White House Chief of Staff John Podesta has announced his staff. Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste will continue in her position. She'll be joined by Steve Ricchetti, a former White House legislative affairs staffer, who will also be a deputy chief of staff. Paul Begala will continue to serve as counselor to the President. Director of Speechwriting Michael Waldman will continue in his job as well. Advisor Doug Sosnik has been given the title senior advisor to the President for policy and strategy. Rounding out the team, Karen Tramantano, former chief of staff to the Mayor of the District of Columbia, will serve as assistant to the President and counselor to the chief of staff.

The Industry Advisory Council has selected Agriculture Department CIO Anne Thomson Reed and GTE Corporation's Deirdre Murray as the government and industry co-chairs for the council's Executive Leadership Conference (ELC'99), to be held October 3-5, 1999. The conference brings together IT executives from government and industry to discuss agencies' technology needs.

Federal Emergency Management Agency communications director Morrie Goodman has headed to the Commerce Department to become director of public affairs.

David Evans has been named director of the office of oceanic and atmospheric research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, filling a vacancy left by the departure of Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, former National Weather Service director, who left to join the National Academy of Sciences. Evans was deputy assistant administrator of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service. He has been replaced in that position by Andy Rosenberg, former Northeast regional administrator for NOAA Fisheries.

Also at NOAA, oceanographer Kurt J. Schnebele has been named deputy director of the National Oceanographic Data Center in Silver Spring, Md. Schnebele retired from the NOAA Uniformed Corps in 1997 after 26 years of service.

G O I N G S

Governmental Accounting Standards Board member Barbara Henderson is retiring from the board in June. Henderson has been on the board since 1991 and has more than 25 years of finance and administration experience. She plans to travel after retirement.

Ellen Van Edwards has retired after 42 years with the Commerce Department. Most recently she was an event management specialist in the ITA Foreign Commercial Service.

Charles W. Caillouet Jr., a recognized expert on endangered sea turtles and chief of the protected species branch of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Southeast Fisheries Science Center Laboratory in Galveston, Texas, has retired after 27 years at the lab.

K U D O S

The Defense Logistics Agency has garnered five new Hammer Awards from Vice President Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. That brings DLA's total Hammer count to 51. The new awards went to DLA's distribution standard system team, bulk fuels business unit, material returns improvement team, along with the Defense Automated Printing Center at Fort Belvoir, Va., and the Defense Supply Center in Richmond, Va.