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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2005 | 202-501-4633 |
Norton
Names Matt Hogan Acting Director
of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
Interior Secretary Gale Norton
today named Matthew J. Hogan to be acting director of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service until a new director is nominated by President
Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Hogan has served as the Service's
deputy director for the past three years. He will assume the duties
of FWS Director Steve Williams, who announced his resignation last week
to become president of the Wildlife Management Institute. "Matt Hogan has played
a major role in furthering the President's commitment to cooperative
conservation through partnerships with states, tribes, local communities,
conservation groups and others," Norton said. "He will provide
continuity and skillful leadership to the Service during the period
of transition to a new director." Before joining the Service in 2002, Hogan, 37, spent four years as conservation policy director of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, serving as a liaison between the hunting, fishing and conservation communities and the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus. Prior to that, he was government affairs manager for Safari Club International and legislative director for Congressman Pete Geren of Texas. He graduated from LeMoyne
College in Syracuse, New York in 1990.
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