In-State Federal Posts US Attorney Northern District - Jim Greenlee (Batesville/Oxford) US Attorney Southern District - Dunn Lampton (McComb) US District Judge Northern District - Mike Mills (Fulton) US Marshall Northern District - Larry Wagster (Oxford) US Marshall Southern District - Nehemiah Flowers (Jackson) Farm Services Administration State Director - Mickey Black (Sidon) Farm Services State Committee Chairman - Diane Hawks (Hernando) Rural Development Administration State Director - Nick Walters (Wiggins/Ridgeland) Farm Service Agency Committee - Rick Parsons (Vance), Ted Kendall (Bolton), William Spight (Ripley), Jeff Howell (Lucedale). High Profile Posts Deputy Senior Advisor to the President - Chris Henick (Yazoo City) [Resigned] Secretary of Education - Rod Paige (Monticello) Federal Co-Chairman of the Delta Regional Authority - Pete Johnson (Clarksdale) Ambassador to Portugal - John Palmer (Jackson) Undersecretary for Department of Agriculture - Bill Hawks (Hernando) Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (Army Corps of Engineers) - Mike Parker (Brookhaven) [Resigned] Region IV Director, Environmental Protection Agency - Jimmy Palmer (Jackson) Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals Justice - Charles Pickering (Laurel) [Rejected] Administrative Posts, Boards and Committees Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration - Marion Blakey Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Curt Hebert (Pascagoula) [Resigned] Chairman, Tennessee Valley Authority - Glenn L. McCullough, Jr. (Tupelo) Chairman, Commission of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission - James Newsome (Flora) Chairman, Postal Rate Commission - George Omas (Biloxi) Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service - James Ziglar (Pascagoula) [Resigned] Chairman, National Credit Union Administration - Dennis Dollar (Gulfport) Commissioner, US Surface Transporation Board - Wayne Burkes (Clinton) Delta Regional Authority Executive Director - Hayes Dent (Yazoo City) Member of the Community Development Advisory Board - William Bynum (Enterprise Corporation of the Delta) Member of the Advisory Committee on the Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Rosemary Ramirez Barbour (Jackson) Member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee - Bernie Ebbers (WorldCom) Member of the President's Federal Advisory Committee with the Dept. of Commerce's Census Bureau (REAC) - Daryl Neely (Jackson) Member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board - Jim Barksdale (Ridgeland) Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation - Bill Hawks (Hernando) Member of the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Ronald Francis Mason, Jr Member of the National Transportation Safety Board - Marion Blakey [Reappointed to other post] Vice-Chairman, Postal Rate Commissioner - Dana B. "Danny" Covington (Columbus) 2002-2003 Class of White House Fellows - Barry K. Williams (Abbeville) Did I miss anyone? E-mail and let me know (scoop@magnoliareport.com) |