Department of State

Department of State

AGENCY SPOTLIGHT: Distinguished Executive

Richard C. Visek

Deputy Legal Advisor

Richard Visek advises on domestic and international legal issues related to the work of the Department of State. Before joining State in 1999, he worked at the Justice Department and in private practice. He is a graduate of Stanford (BA), Georgetown (JD), and Cambridge (LLM) Universities.

Distinguished Executive

• James E. Buchanan
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (retired)
  An intelligence specialist, Mr. Buchanan led State’s analytical program through a period of adjustment to both Intelligence Community reform and increasing international security challenges.

Meritorious Executive

• Lawrence E. Bartlett
  Director of Refugee Admissions
  He leads programs that identify, process, and receive refugees for permanent U.S. resettlement. In the past three years, the program resettled over 200,000 refugees to the United States.
• Cecilia M. Coates
  Managing Director, Program Management and Policy
  Ms. Coates revolutionized State’s global supply chain by implementing the Integrated Logistics Management System delivering dramatic performance improvements and saving millions in taxpayer dollars.
• Philip A. Foley
  Director of the Office of Counterproliferation Initiatives
  Mr. Foley is the Director of the Office of Counterproliferation Initiatives in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the Department of State.
• Kathleen Hooke
  Assistant Legal Adviser for Human Rights and Refugees
  Ms. Hooke, an international law expert, has served as a State Department attorney for over 20 years. She is married and has one daughter.
• Philippe A. Lussier
  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
  Mr. Lussier is responsible for workforce planning and analysis, human resource management, HR systems operations and development, policy coordination, labor management, and casualty assistance.
• Suzanne M. McCormick
  Director, Office of Analysis for Terrorism, Narcotics, and Crime
  Ms. McCormick leads an office that provides critical support on sensitive national issues related to the Administration’s counterterrorism, counter-narcotics, and international law enforcement agendas.
• Katherine McManus
  Deputy Legal Adviser and Designated Agency Ethics Official
  An attorney at the State Department since 2000, Ms. McManus led the Office of Legislation and Foreign Assistance prior to becoming Deputy Legal Adviser.
• Mary T. Mitchell
  Assistant Legal Adviser
  Ms. Mitchell has advised on complex international negotiations in her 13 year career at the State Department. She is a Michigan Law graduate.
• Jaime E. Salcedo
  Acting Managing Director, Special Projects Office
  Mr. Salcedo joined the SES in 2008. Masters Engineering Management GW University, BS Electrical Engineering John Hopkins University, graduated as Valedictorian Colombian Naval Academy.