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US President-Elect Announces Three More Cabinet Nominees
US President-elect George W. Bush Wednesday named Don Evans as his future commerce secretary, Ann Veneman as his agriculture secretary and Mel Martinez as his secretary of housing and urban development.
Evans, 54, is chief executive of Tom Brown Inc., a Denver-based oil and gas company with an office in Midland. He was instrumental in helping Bush raise a record US$100 million for his presidential race, then helped guide the campaign to a narrow victory over Vice President Al Gore.
Veneman, 51, served as director of the California Food and Agriculture Department from 1996 to 1998. Appointed by former Republican Governor Pete Wilson, she was the first woman to head the agency. She was also the highest-ranking woman in the US Department of Agriculture from 1989 to 1991, when Bush's father was president.
Martinez, chairman of Orange County, Florida State, co-chaired Bush's presidential campaign in Florida and is a close ally of his brother George Jeb Bush, the state's Republican governor. Martinez, 54, fled Cuba to the United States in 1962 when he was 15 years old.
Earlier, Bush nominated Alcoa Inc. Chairman Paul O'Neill, 65, as his treasury secretary.
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