Every Monday on GovExec.com, the People column (formerly known as "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.
Dr. Charles R. Cortinovis has been named to the top post in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Office of Occupational Medicine. Prior to taking this post, Cortinovis served as a medical officer with the Food and Drug Administration. Cortinovis will head a staff of four full-time and two part-time doctors and other personnel to provide medical, toxicological and epidemiological technical support to OSHA compliance officers.
Michael H. Shapiro has been named principal deputy assistant for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response at the Environmental Protection Agency. Shapiro has been acting in the position since February 1997. Elizabeth Cotsworth has been named director of the Office of Solid Waste, a position she has also been acting in since February 1997.
The Agriculture Department has brought on Richard Fritz to help develop export programs. Fritz, former administrator of the Oregon Wheat Commission, will tackle this responsibility as general sales manager of the Foreign Agriculture Service. In his new role, Fritz will also head USDA's food aid programs. He replaces Christopher E. Goldthwait, who is now ambassador to the Republic of Chad.
Lawrence M. Small, president of Fannie Mae and a financial administrator, has been selected as the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian Board of Regents, a 17-member governing board led by Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, selected Small to lead the complex for the next ten years. Before coming to Washington, Small was the vice chairman of Citicorp/Citibank, where he worked for 27 years.
Army Lt. Gen. John W. Hendrix has been nominated to be commanding general of the U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort McPherson, Ga. Hendrix is currently serving as commanding general, V Corps, of the United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, in Heidelberg, Germany. Hendrix will be replaced by Army Maj. Gen. James C. Riley. He is currently serving as commanding general of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) and of Fort Stewart, Ga.
Kudos to Janice R. Lachance, director of the Office of Personnel Management, who was recently awarded a Special Recognition Award for OPM's leadership in improving the representation of Hispanics in government. OPM launched a nine-point plan in 1997 to encourage agencies to hire more Hispanics after statistics indicated that Hispanics were underrepresented in the federal government.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government has announced seven grant awards. The awards will fund research papers that study new approaches to improving public sector effectiveness. The winners are:
- Robert Agranoff and David George Frederickson of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, to evaluate the implementation of the Results Act in five federal health care agencies.
- Louis M. Brennan and Gina Vega of the Department of Management at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., to analyze and evaluate telecommuting in the public sector.
- James Carroll of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Florida International University, to review three central elements of federal management, and arrive at an agenda for improving federal management for use by the next administration.
- Colin Campbell of the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University, to study institutionalization of corporate strategic planning in the Air Force.
- Steven I. Gordon and J. Pari Sabety of the Technology Policy Group at the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus, Ohio, to describe the new tools and methodologies needed to measure a state's readiness for global electronic commerce.
- Robert Maranto of the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy at the Curry School of Education of the University of Virginia, to analyze how formal and informal orientation procedures work to assimilate appointees into agencies.
- James R. Thompson, University of Illinois-Chicago and Fred Thompson, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, to generate a consensus among experts on the future of administrative reform.