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 ksaldarini@govexec.com or fax it to 202-739-8511.

Bob Stone, the National Partnership for Reinventing Government's self-described "energizer-in-chief," is retiring in May. He will be spending time with his grandchildren and consulting on government organizations on reinvention. Stone will be a partner in the St. Paul, Minn.-based Public Strategies Group Inc., which is headed by reinvention guru David Osborne.

Wen Ho Lee was dismissed from his position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory after he failed a lie-detector test in February and failed to disclose foreign contacts. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recommended the firing. Lee wrote and maintained supercomputer codes for hydrodynamics at the lab. He had been under FBI investigation since 1996.

Diane E. Thompson has joined the Environmental Protection Agency as associate administrator for congressional and intergovernmental relations. She previously served as associate commissioner for legislative affairs at the Food and Drug Administration. Thompson will be responsible for directing agency matters and relations with Congress, state and local governments.

Federal Service Impasses Panel members Edward E. Hartfield and Mary E. Jacksteit have been reappointed to second terms, to run through January 2004. The panel is a component of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, an independent agency that administers labor-management relations programs. Hartfield was appointed to the panel in 1994 and currently serves as executive director of the national center for dispute settlement. Jacksteit was originally appointed to the panel in 1995. She serves as a labor arbitrator, mediator and conflict resolution consultant.

President Clinton has nominated Bill Lann Lee as assistant attorney general for the civil rights division at the Department of Justice. Lee has been serving in an acting capacity in the position since his previous nomination stalled in the Senate.

President Clinton announced that he intends to nominate Kelly H. Carnes as assistant secretary for technology policy at the Department of Commerce. Carnes currently serves as Commerce's deputy assistant secretary for technology policy. Her new responsibilities will include developing policies to enhance the role of technology in promoting economic growth and competitiveness.

President Clinton also announced that he intends to nominate John D. Holum as under secretary for arms control and international security at the State department and David B. Sandalow as assistant Secretary of State for oceans and international environment and scientific affairs. Holum has been director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency since 1993. Sandalow is associate director for the global environment for the White House Council on Environmental Quality and senior director for environmental affairs at the National Security Council.

Kerry L. Miller has been appointed administrative law judge at the Government Printing Office. Miller will head GPO's Board of Contract Appeals, which determines the outcomes of appeals from the final decisions of GPO contracting officers. Since 1997, Miller has been the associate general counsel for contracts and procurement at GPO.

Capt. Nicholas A. Prahl has been named to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic and Pacific Marine Centers. Prahl previously managed the nation's nautical charting program as acting director of the Office of the Coast Survey.

Bonnie Marie Green has been appointed deputy administrator for inland waterways and Great Lakes at the Maritime Administration, an agency within the Department of Transportation. She will advise the maritime administrator on issues relating to the nation's inland waterway system and Great Lakes.