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US Department of State: John M. Robinson Named Director of the Office
of Civil Rights and Chief Diversity Officer
(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
RDATE:03032008
John M. Robinson was sworn in on Monday, March 3, 2008, as Director of
the Office of Civil Rights and Chief Diversity Officer. Robinson serves
as the primary advisor to the Secretary of State and the Department's
senior leadership on equal opportunity, diversity, affirmative
employment and related issues. Robinson is coming to State from the
staff of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Prior to joining ODNI, he served as Chief of EEO and Diversity for the
Internal Revenue Service. He was Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary
of the Department of Energy (DOE) from 1999 to 2001. His federal
service began in 1994 as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Employment
and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
Prior to federal service, he served in the Rhode Island Governor's
Cabinet as Director of the Rhode Island Department of Employment and
Training from 1991 to 1993. He was a senior dean at Brown University
before joining state government and held various administrative
positions in higher education from 1973 to 1990. A Vietnam-era veteran,
he served as a naval officer aboard a destroyer and an ammunition ship,
and earned the Navy Commendation Medal. A graduate of Brown University,
He holds a Masters degree from Tuskegee University, is a Senior
Intelligence Fellow, and completed programs at the Center for Creative
Leadership - Greensboro, the Federal Executive Institute -
Charlottesville, and the Institute for Education Management at Harvard
University. In 2007, Robinson received the Distinguished Alumnus Award
from the Center for Creative Leadership.
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