Appointments

• President Obama has nominated Thomas M. Beck to the National Mediation Board. Beck has been a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority since October of 2008 and was previously the agency’s chairman. He worked in private law practice for 16 years, most recently at Jones Day.

• Cameron Munter is the president’s nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Munter, a career Foreign Service member with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, was most recently the ambassador to Serbia. He has served as deputy chief of mission in Iraq, Poland and the Czech Republic.

{mosads}• The president’s nominee for ambassador to the Republic of Gambia is Pamela Ann White, a member of the Senior Foreign Service. White has been the USAID mission director in Liberia since 2008. She has also served as USAID mission director in Mali and Tanzania.

• President Obama has announced his intent to appoint Demetria Henderson, Helen T. McAlpine, Alma Johnson Powell, E. John Rice Jr. and Dianne Boardley Sube to the President’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Henderson, a recent graduate, is a 2010 corps member for Teach for America. McAlpine is president of J.F. Drake State Technical College. Powell leads America’s Promise Alliance and is the chairwoman of the advisory board for the Pew Center for Civic Change. Rice is founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow, and Suber is president of Saint Augustine’s College.

• The president has nominated Sam E. Angel to be the next commissioner of the Mississippi River Commission. Angel has been a member of the commission since 1979 and is president of Epstein Land Co. and Epstein Gin Co.

• President Obama has put forward Marsha Ternus, the chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, as his nominee for board member of the State Justice Institute. Before her appointment to the Iowa Supreme Court in 2003, Ternus was an attorney at the law firm Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave.

• The president has announced his intent to appoint Karen L. Braitmayer and Howard A. Rosenblum to the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Access Board. Braitmayer, an expert on accessible architecture, is with Studio Pacifica Ltd., while Rosenblum is senior attorney at the nonprofit Equip for Equality.