Capt. Gordon Loebl, who has been chief of the Office of Quality Assurance and Traveling Inspections at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, becomes commander of the Coast Guard Sector New York and New Jersey, effective June 13, replacing Rear Adm. Linda Fagan.
Williams Mullen hired Robert Zuckerman, general counsel at Horizon Lines, as Of Counsel in the firm's Virginia Beach, Va., office. Zuckerman will remain vice president-law and government affairs at Horizon Lines.
Claude Rousseau, Remparts de Québec, appointed to the Québec Port Authority board for a three-year term.
Thomas Fusco, formerly supervisory attorney in the office of unfair import investigations at the International Trade Commission, was hired as counsel at Fish & Richardson.
Airlines for America named Josh Saltzman, ex-aide to Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, vice president-global government affairs.
Barbara Linney joined the Miller & Chevalier's Export Controls and Economic Sanctions practice as a Member. Linney comes to the firm from Blank Rome. Miller & Chevalier also hired Kuang Chiang from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The US-China Business Council elected Robert McDonald of Procter & Gamble as chair. Other new officers: Vice Chairs William Cohen, Cohen Group, and Gregory Brown, Motorola Solutions; Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Lynch, TE Connectivity; Of Counsel Andrew Shoyer, Sidley Austin; new board members Hamid Biglari, Citicorp; Marc Casper, Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Maurice Greenberg, C.V. Starr & Co.
Air freight company Air T expands its board by one to ten directors, and nominates Nicholas Swenson, Groveland Capital, to its board.
Lowry Crook, counsel and chief of staff to Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky, departed June 1 to become deputy chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House. No replacement has been named.
Coast Guard Rear Adm. Christopher Colvin retired June 1. Colvin had been deputy commander of Coast Guard Pacific Area since June 8, 2011.