Once Kinder Morgan began considering a bid, Goldman's two director appointees on the Kinder Morgan board recused themselves immediately from discussions about this potential purchase.
One-third of new director appointees at Russell 3000 companies were women in 2018, and we expect this number to increase in the coming years, as board gender diversity gains more support in the market.
In theory, the CFPB advocates for consumer interests in incidents like the Equifax hack, but CFPB supporters argue that the agency has been gutted during the Trump administration at the hands of its acting director, Trump appointee Mick Mulvaney.
Democrats and consumer advocates have denounced him for sharply departing from the aggressive watchdog role the bureau had pursued under its first director, Obama appointee Richard Cordray, including scaling back enforcement and moving to reassess tough new rules on payday loans and narrow the definition of abusive practices by banks and other firms.
Unispec employees now even book the appointments and write the speeches of the office's director, a presidential appointee, according to McClure and agency documents.
Col. Albert J. Lingo, a George Wallace appointee, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety and suspected Klan sympathizer, seemed obsessed with blaming black Muslims for the bombing.
One important change would alter the way education aid flows to school districts, jettisoning the formula that now governs awards and vesting discretionary powers in the budget director -- an appointee of the governor.
And for all of Mr. Brown's knowledge and self-assurance, it is this unlikely budget director — a Republican appointee — to whom the governor keeps turning to help him navigate this treacherous terrain.
After submitting underlings to a spiel on the top 20 targeted Congressional Democrats, the agency director, a patronage appointee, was quoted as issuing an open plea for the government-paid workers to help "our candidates".
