CBP named Jayson Ahern the new area port director at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the agency said May 15. Since assuming the role in late April, Ahern oversees day-to-day CBP operations at DFW and the ports of Austin, Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, San Antonio, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Ahern was previously DFW assistant director-passenger operations.
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Seven attorneys and two international trade professionals, all from McDermott Will, joined Blank Rome's international trade practice group in Washington. The new lawyers are partners Joanne Osendarp and Eric Parnes, senior counsel Lynn Kamarck and Alan Kashdan, of counsel Conor Gilligan, and associates Tyler Kimberly and Brendan Saslow. Also joining are Jorge Miranda as trade economic adviser and Deborah Flinn as international trade manager, both from McDermott Will. Osendarp will co-chair the practice group with Anthony Rapa. The attorneys' practices involve trade remedy cases, export controls and sanctions proceedings and False Claims Act litigation, among other things, Blank Rome said.
Melba Hubbard, chief of the broker management branch at CBP’s Office of Trade, will retire in June, an official said at the agency’s National Commodity Specialist Division Trade Forum on April 12. Hubbard has led the broker management branch for four years, and in her 30-year career at CBP also was at the quota branch and antidumping and countervailing duty branch, as well as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Nasim Fussell, former top trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, has left Holland & Knight for Lot Sixteen, a public relations and lobbying firm. Fussell wrote in her bio at Lot Sixteen: "As a trade partner in a big Washington law firm, I represented corporate, trade association and government clients on trade policy and regulatory issues across the spectrum. Having been in my clients’ shoes during my own time in the corporate and trade association worlds, I understood how to make them happy." Fussell joined Lot Sixteen as senior vice president this month, according to her LinkedIn bio.
Sandler Travis ownership and management will transfer from founders Lee Sandler and Tom Travis to a six-member Operating Committee and a seven-member Advisory Committee, the firm said.
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass will step down in June, and a former U.S. trade representative, Michael Froman, will become the new president of the think tank.
Doris Johnson Hines, an intellectual property lawyer, is about to become the newest administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission, according to a Feb. 23 ITC news release. She will begin work on Feb. 27. She currently is a partner at Finnegan and has "extensive experience in intellectual property litigation in both the public and private sectors leading teams in U.S. district courts, the USITC, and before arbitration panels," the announcement said.
Former Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has joined the American Enterprise Institute as a visiting fellow, the think tank announced. He will focus on expanding free trade, U.S.-China relations, U.S.-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine, as well as some domestic issues. Before serving in the Senate, Portman was a U.S. trade representative during the George W. Bush administration, and headed the Office of Management and Budget during that administration, as well.
Kenneth Schagrin, who has held several positions in his more than 20 years with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, has been named assistant U.S. trade representative for the Office of Services and Investment. The office facilitates partnerships in financial services, telecom, digital trade and other services. He previously held the post in an acting position.
CBP announced Ian Saunders as the “official U.S. candidate” for the position of secretary general of the World Customs Organization, it said in a news release. The WCO is set to elect its new leader in June. Saunders is currently deputy assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere in the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration.