Bill Baer, ex-Arnold & Porter, confirmed as the Department of Justice's Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to leave after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
The Tampa Port Authority hired Paul Anderson, ex-Federal Maritime Commission and ex-Port of Jacksonville, as the authority’s new port director and chief executive, succeeding Richard Wainio, who had held the position since March 2005.
Named to President Obama's Global Development Council: Mohamed A. El-Erian, Pacific Investment Management Company, chair; Richard Blum, Blum Capital Partners; Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Walmart Foundation; Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sarah Beardsley Degnan Kambou, International Center for Research on Women; James Manyika, McKinsey & Company; William Reilly, TPG, LP; Steven Schwager, ex-American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Smita Singh, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The International Chamber of Commerce names James Bacchus, Greenberg Traurig, chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy.
Universal Truckload Services named H.E. "Scott" Wolfe CEO, and David Crittenden chief financial officer. Both are ex-Logistics Insight Corp. Don Cochran, Universal's previous CEO, was named vice chairman and remains Universal's president. Bob Sigler, Universal's previous CFO, becomes executive vice president. The announcement follows Universal's recent acquisition of LINC Logistics Co.
Paul Lugard of Baker Botts becomes chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Competition, and Anne Riley, Shell International, becomes a vice-chair.
World Bank Group named Bertrand Badré, ex-Société Générale, managing director for finance and chief financial officer.
The Port of New Orleans Board of Commissioners elected Joe Toomy chairman, succeeding Commissioner Valerie Cahill, whose term as chair expired. Cahill will continue as a commissioner. The Board also elected Commissioners Dan Packer vice chair and Greg Rusovich secretary-treasurer.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide Senior Vice President Jim Butts will retire from the company effective Dec. 31.