USCIS Announces Permanent Leadership Appointments
To: All CIS Employees
From: Director Aguirre
Date: September 22,
2003
Now that we are into our second six months of U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), I am pleased to announce the permanent appointments of the following key CIS management personnel. This announcement includes positions at CIS Headquarters, Field Offices, Asylum Offices and Service Centers. These appointments are just the beginning. The remaining District Director, Asylum Director, and Officer-in-Charge positions will be announced through the competitive process within the next thirty days.
I am confident that these initial appointees, and those that will follow, are the right team members to lead CIS into the future. Through these dedicated leaders, I am sure that we will achieve our common goals of reducing backlogs and improving customer service while protecting the national security of the United States.
HEADQUARTERS
Associate Director, Operations - William
(Bill) Yates
Deputy Associate Director, Operations - Janis
Sposato
Director, Field Operations - Terrance (Terry) O'Reilly Director,
Service Center Operations - Fujie Ohata Director, Information & Customer
Service
- Michael (Mike) Aytes Director, Fraud Detection & National
Security - Louis (Don) Crocetti Director, Modernization - Patricia (Patty)
Cogswell Director, Production Management - Ann Palmer Director, International
Affairs - Joseph (Joe) Cuddihy
Associate Director, Asylum
Operations - Joseph Langlois
Associate Director,
Refugee Operations - Kathleen Thompson
Director, Administrative Appeals
Office - Robert (Bob) Wiemann
REGIONAL DIRECTORS
Eastern Region, Burlington,
Vermont - Steven Farquharson Central Region, Dallas, Texas - Kenneth Pasquarell
Western Region, Laguna Niguel, California - Carolyn Muzyka
DISTRICT DIRECTORS
District Director, Atlanta -
Rosemary Melville
District Director, Buffalo - M. Francis Holmes
District
Director, Cleveland - Mark Hanson
District Director, Detroit - Carol
Jenifer
District Director, El Paso - Raymond Adams
District Director, Los
Angeles - Jane Arellano
District Director,
Miami - Jack Bulger
District Director, Newark -
Andrea Quarantillo
District Director, Omaha - Gerard Heinauer
District
Director, Phoenix - Stephen Fickett
District Director, San Francisco - David
Still
District Director, Seattle - Robert Okin
District Director, St. Paul
- Curtis Aljets
SERVICE CENTER DIRECTORS
Director, Vermont Service
Center - Paul Novak
Director, Nebraska Service Center - Terry
Way
Director, Texas Service Center - Evelyn Upchurch
Director, California
Service Center - Don Neufeld
NATIONAL BENEFIT CENTER
Director, National Benefit
Center - Robert Cowan
ASYLUM DIRECTOR
Asylum Director, Los Angeles - Robert
Looney
OFFICERS-IN-CHARGE
Officer-in-Charge, Albany - Gary
Hale
Officer-in-Charge, Charlotte - Richard Gottlieb Officer-in-Charge,
Cherry Hill - Carol Bellew Officer-in-Charge, Fresno - Don Riding
Officer-in-Charge, Las Vegas - Karen Dorman Officer-in-Charge, Louisville -
Michael Conway Officer-in-Charge, Memphis - David Angotti Officer-in-Charge,
Orlando - M. Stella Jarina Officer-in-Charge, Providence - Jeffery Trecartin
Officer-in-Charge, Sacramento - Susan Curda Officer-in-Charge, San Bernardino -
Irene Martin Officer-in-Charge, San Jose - Warren Janssen Officer-in-Charge,
Santa Ana - Marta Salgado-Nino Officer-in-Charge, St. Albans - Noel Induni
Officer-in-Charge, St. Louis - Chester Moyer Officer-in-Charge, Tucson - William
Johnston Officer-in-Charge, Ventura - J. T. Watson