Federal Manager's Daily Report

Robert I. (Ric) Cusick, a Kentucky lawyer with long experience

in legal and public officer ethics, has been nominated as

director of the Office of Government Ethics. Cusick is a 1968

graduate of the Brandeis School of Law of the University of

Louisville, served on active duty as a Navy JAG officer and

retired as a Captain in the reserve in 1998. He is a fellow

of the American Bar Foundation and the Kentucky Bar Foundation

and is a member of the American Bar Association Center for

Professional Responsibility.