The President intends to nominate John H. Marburger, III to Director of
the Office of Science and Technology. He is currently the
Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National
Laboratory and President of Brookhaven Science
Associates. He is presently on a leave of absence from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook where he served as
President and Professor from 1980 to 1994 and as a University Professor
of Physics and Electrical Engineering from 1994 to
1997. Marburger served as the Dean of the College of
Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California
from 1976 to 1980. He has been a member of numerous
professional, civic and philanthropic organizations including the
Universities Research Association, the Advisory Committee to the New
York State Senate Committee on Higher Education and the Board of
Directors of the Museums at Stony Brook. He is a graduate of
Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from
Stanford University.
The President intends to nominate Gerald Reynolds to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Civil Rights. He has served since
1998 as Senior Regulatory Counsel at Kansas City Power and
Light. From 1997 to 1998, he was President and Legal Counsel
for the Center for New Black Leadership and continues to sit on the
Board of Directors. Reynolds served as a Legal Analyst for
the Center for Equal Opportunity from 1995 to 1997. He is a
graduate of the City University of New York at York College and
received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
