Margaret D. Klein will be the Naval Academy's first female commandant of midshipmen, serving as No. 2 in the chain of command behind Vice Adm. Rodney P. Rempt.
Famously press-shy but commanding behind the scenes, he had long dismissed talk of any succession.
In 2008, Stefano Domenicali, who had been second in command behind Todt, took over as team director.
The appointment to the newly created position places Mr. Daley second in command behind Edward E. Whitacre Jr., SBC's chairman and chief executive.
Ranger historians remember 1989, when Phil Esposito, then the general manager, fired Michel Bergeron and took command behind the bench for the final two games.
The changes of regime in Serbia and Croatia in 2000 gave the tribunal access to more prominent suspects, and ambitious prosecutors set out to reveal and prosecute the chains of command behind the large-scale crimes of the war.
The appointment to a newly created position places Mr. Daley second in command behind Edward E. Whitacre Jr., chairman and chief executive of SBC, the giant regional Bell company, based in San Antonio.
With three dozen parents and students in the bleachers or in beach chairs under a slate-gray sky, Mr. Lofton was in command behind home plate, with a second umpire, Frank Palombo, making calls in the field.
In his day job, senior Congressional Republicans said, Mr. Stombres has been part of the Republican brain trust for most of the legislative fights in recent years, serving at Mr. Cantor's side as the lawmaker rose to be second in command behind Speaker John A. Boehner.
Fred Westerbeke, the chief investigator, said that some evidence was being withheld on Wednesday to avoid alerting suspects, and also that more information was needed to build an open-and-shut case against individual suspects and to diagram the chain of command behind the order to deploy and launch.
