PROMOTION RECOMMENDATIONS TO AND WITHIN THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE.   Promotions will be made effective once the Senate has confirmed these names and the President has attested the appointments.   Senior Foreign Service Presidential Rank Award nominations and Performance Pay Awards are pending approval.

CLASS OF CAREER MINISTER:

Franklin D. Lee                                     Kenneth J. Roberts

CLASS OF MINISTER COUNSELOR:

Maurice W. House                    M. Kathryn Ting                        Howard R. Wetzel

CLASS OF COUNSELOR:

Charles T. Alexander                 Elizabeth B. Berry                      Lloyd S. Harbert
Ross G. Kreamer

PROMOTIONS TO CLASS 1:

Charles R. Bertsch
Stan A. Cohen
Kevin N. Smith

Bernadette Borris
Ralph B. Gifford

Andrew C. Burst
L. Henry Schmick, Jr.

PROMOTIONS TO CLASS 2:

Ali A. Abdi
Brian D. Goggin

Casey E. Bean
Leslie C. O'Connor

Joseph M. Carroll
David J. Williams

PROMOTIONS TO CLASS 3:

Richard A. Battaglia
Mark A. Petry
Michael M. Riedel

Oliver L. Flake
Susan B. Phillips

Erich Kuss
Karina Ramos

MERITORIOUS SERVICE INCREASE - Class 1

Scott E. Bleggi
Wayne P. Molstad

Jonathan P. Gressel
Scott R. Reynolds

Holly S. Higgins
Susan R. Schayes

MERITORIOUS SERVICE INCREASE - Class 2

Jeanne F. Bailey
Leanne E. Hogie
Eugene P. Philhower
Ronald P. Verdonk

Richard T. Drennan
Marcus E. Lower
Bobby G. Richey, Jr.
Michael D. Woolsey

Jeffrey A. Hesse
Hugh J. Maginnis
Christine M. Sloop
Bruce J. Zanin

MERITORIOUS SERVICE INCREASE – Class 3

Ralph K. Bean
Kimberly L. Svec

David W. Cottrell

Paul Spencer

MERITORIOUS SERVICE INCREASE - Class 4

Sandra L. Arbuthnot
Kari A. Rojas

Rachel Bickford
Justina L. Torry

Claudine L. Brenner
Clarissa Valdivia

MERITORIOUS SERVICE INCREASE - Class 5

Kathleen M. Larkin-Soane

Karen J. Laughlin

Tracy F. McMackle

Electronic Mail Address:

Sheila Bruce

Internet Mail Address:

Sheila_Bruce@wdc.fsa.usda.gov

Fax Number:

202-418-9127