[il-talk] Fw: President Obama Announces RSA Commissioner Nomination

[Robert Gardner]

> From: Marlene Malloy [mailto:marlene at mcrs13.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 9:34 AM
> To: ncsrc at mcrs13.org
> Subject: President Obama Announces RSA Commissioner Nomination
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 FYI - exciting news!
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> THE WHITE HOUSE
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> February 1, 2013
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> President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
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> WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to 
> nominate the following individual to a key Administration post:
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> Janet L. LaBreck - Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration, 
> Department of Education
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> President Obama also announced his intent to appoint the following 
> individuals to key Administration posts:
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> Jonathan Safran Foer - Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
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> Robert Listenbee, Jr. - Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and 
> Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice
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> James Stock - Member, Council of Economic Advisors
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> President Obama said, "I am pleased to announce that these experienced and 
> committed individuals have agreed to join this Administration, and I look 
> forward to working with them in the months and years ahead."
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> President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individual 
> to a key Administration post:
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> Janet L. LaBreck, Nominee for Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services 
> Administration, Department of Education
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> Janet L. LaBreck is the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission for 
> the Blind (MCB), a position she has held since 2007.  Ms. LaBreck joined 
> the MCB in 1985 as Consumer Advocate.  She has served in a number of 
> positions at the MCB since then, including Independent Living Coordinator, 
> Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, and Regional Director of Central 
> Massachusetts.  Since 2005, she has worked as an Adjunct Professor at 
> Assumption College, where she teaches courses in rehabilitation of the 
> blind and case management in rehabilitation.  She was awarded an honorary 
> Doctorate of Humane Letters from the New England College of Optometry. 
> She received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and an M.Ed. from 
> Springfield College.
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> President Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals 
> to key Administration posts:
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> Jonathan Safran Foer, Appointee for Member, United States Holocaust 
> Memorial Council
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> Jonathan Safran Foer is a professor in the Graduate Creative Writing 
> Program at New York University.  He is also an author of numerous 
> publications, including the New York Times bestsellers Extremely Loud and 
> Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated, which received the 
> National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award.  He was a 
> visiting professor at Yale University in 2008, and currently serves on the 
> Board of Directors of Farm Forward.  In 2010, he was selected as one of 
> The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers to watch.  Mr. Foer received a B.A. 
> from Princeton University.
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> Robert Listenbee, Jr., Appointee for Administrator, Office of Juvenile 
> Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice
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> Robert Listenbee,  Jr. is Chief of the Juvenile Unit of the Defender 
> Association of Philadelphia, a position he has held since 1997.  He has 
> also been a trial lawyer at the Defender Association of Philadelphia since 
> 1986.  Previously, from 1991 to 1997, Mr. Listenbee was Assistant Chief of 
> the Juvenile Unit.  He is a member of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
> Prevention Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and 
> Delinquency, which advises the Governor of Pennsylvania on juvenile 
> justice policy.  Mr. Listenbee serves on the policy committees of the 
> National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the National Center for 
> Juvenile Justice. He serves on the advisory board of the National Juvenile 
> Defender Center and is a board member and former President of the Juvenile 
> Defenders Association of Pennsylvania.  Mr. Listenbee received a B.A. from 
> Harvard University and a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the 
> University of California, Berkeley.
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> Dr. James Stock, Appointee for Member, Council of Economic Advisers
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> Dr. James Stock is the Chief Economist for the Council of Economic 
> Advisers (CEA), a position he has held since 2012.  Before joining CEA, he 
> worked at Harvard University, where he has held a number of positions 
> since 1983, including service as the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of 
> Political Economy with a dual appointment in the Kennedy School of 
> Government.  In addition, Dr. Stock chaired the Harvard Economics 
> Department from 2006 to 2009.  He is formerly a member of the Academic 
> Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the National Bureau 
> of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee, and the 
> Massachusetts Governor's Council of Economic Advisors.  He received a B.S. 
> from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of 
> California, Berkeley.
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