Thomas J. Murrin is the new deputy secretary; more ITA, BXA officials are now on the job - International Trade Administration and Bureau of Export Administration

Business America, July 3, 1989

Thomas J. Murrin was confirmed by the U.S. Senate June 21 as Deputy Secretary of Commerce. Other Bush Administration appointees to the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration (ITA) and the Bureau of Export Administration also are at their posts.

A distinguished service professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Duquesne University, and Chairman of the Defense Manufacturing Board of the Department of Defense, Murrin worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 36 years. He retired in 1987 as President of its Energy and Advanced Technology Group.

Murrin served as chairman of the overseers of the Commerce Department's Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Logistics Management Institute in Bethesda, Md., the Kaman Corporation in Bloomfield, Conn., and the Esterline Corporation in Bellevue, Wash.

A past U.S. delegate to the NATO Industrial Advisory Group, Murrin was a White House appointee to the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and served as co-chairman of the Human Resources Committee. He was a member and past chairman of the board of governors of the Aerospace Industries Association. He also is a member of the national board overseeing "Cities in Schools," an organization working to reduce school dropout rates.

A native of New York City, Murrin received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Fordham University in Bronx, N. Y., in 1951.

The new ITA officials are:

* Roger Windham Wallace, as Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade. Before joining the Commerce Department, Wallace was Deputy Director of the Texas Department of Commerce, heading the business development division. From 1982 to 1987, he was managing director of Tobin-Windham Investments, a private oil and gas investment partnership that he co-founded in 1978. Before that, he was assistant to the Chairman of Roy M. Huffington, Inc., a large private oil company, where he handled legislative and governmental affairs and coordinated diplomatic contacts for the company's international business. Between 1973 and 1975, he was protocol officer for the U.S. Department of State. He has a bachelor's degree in European civilization from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., and a master's degree from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Mass.

* Susan Carol Schwab, confirmed June 21 by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service. Before her appointment, Schwab acted as legislative director for Senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo.). Between 1981 and 1986, she was Danforth's chief economist and legislative assistant for international trade. Schwab was trade policy officer in 1980-81 at the American Embassy in Tokyo, where she dealt with a number of U.S.-Japan trade issues, including telecommunications. From 1977 to 1979, Schwab served as a U.S. trade negotiator at the Office of the President's Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (predecessor to the U.S. Trade Representative). Her responsibilities there included negotiations in the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the agricultural sector. She received her bachelor's degree in political economy from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and holds a master's degree in applied economics from Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.

* Alan Dunn, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries. Dunn practiced maritime and shipping law for the Washington, D.C., law firm of O'Connor and Hannan. Before that, he specialized in international trade and investment with the law firm of Collier, Shannon, Rill and Scott of Washington, D.C., and served as executive assistant to the Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1984-85). He was in the Foreign Service for five years. Dunn attended Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va., and George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., as an undergraduate and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. He was a scholarship student at the Academie de Droit Internationale in The Hague for post-graduate studies in private international law.

* Michael W. Rubinoff, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Adjustment Assistance. He most recently served as Washington representative for the Consortium for Atlantic Studies at Arizona State University. Before that, he conducted research for the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and other Washington, D.C.-based organizations. He also has worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Heritage Foundation. In 1980, he served on the Reagan transition team for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in history (secondary) from the Arizona State University and holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Denver.

* Augustine Tantillo, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and Apparel. Before coming to the Commerce Department, Tantillo served as staff director to Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). Before that, he was Director of Federal Government Relations for the Russell Corporation, a producer of textiles and apparel that employs more than 11,000 workers in four states. Tantillo, a native of South Carolina, holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.