{"id":16411,"date":"2015-01-23T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=16411"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:09:30","slug":"mapp-sends-12-nominees-senate-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=16411","title":{"rendered":"Mapp Sends 12 Nominees To Senate For Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Kenneth Mapp has sent 12 nominees to the 31st Legislature for approval, Government House has announced.<\/p>\n

The list includes most of the governor’s picks to lead various government departments, including the departments of education, health, human services, the Virgin Islands Police Department and more.<\/p>\n

The step is the final one before each nominee officially becomes the head of their respective departments.<\/p>\n

See the full list below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pedro Cruz-Commissioner Designee for Sports, Parks and Recreation<\/li>\n
  2. Vivian Ebbesen-Fludd \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Human Services<\/li>\n
  3. Milton E Potter \u2013 Director Designee for Personnel<\/li>\n
  4. Eugene Farrell \u2013 Director Designee for Fire Services<\/li>\n
  5. Gustav James \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Public Works<\/li>\n
  6. Beverly Nicholson-Doty \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Tourism<\/li>\n
  7. Carlos Robles \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Agriculture<\/li>\n
  8. Devin Carrington \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Licensing and Consumer Affairs<\/li>\n
  9. Marvin Pickering \u2013 Director Designee for the Bureau Internal Revenue<\/li>\n
  10. Sharon McCollum \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Education<\/li>\n
  11. Valdamier Collens \u2013 Commissioner Designee for Finance<\/li>\n
  12. Lawrence Olive \u2013 Director Designee for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    No information was given on when the Senate’s\u00a0process of vetting the nominees would begin, and Government House did not make available comment from the Governor.<\/p>\n

    Not included on the list of names is Terri Griffiths, Mapp’s\u00a0choice for acting Attorney General, as her position is only temporary, sources tell\u00a0VI Consortium<\/em>. She\u00a0will be replaced once the governor finds a successor for former Judge Soraya Diase-Coffelt, who\u00a0resigned<\/a><\/span> her position as acting Attorney General last Thursday, after spending two weeks on the job.<\/p>\n

    Sources told VI Consortium\u00a0<\/em>that Diase-Coffelt resigned, in part, because Mapp’s Chief of Staff, Randy Knight, wanted Griffiths to join the team at the Department of Justice. Diase-Coffelt, however, adamantly opposed the idea.<\/p>\n

    Soon after Diase-Coffelt’s resignation, Griffiths was announced as acting Attorney General.<\/p>\n

    Griffiths notably represented then-gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Mapp during the 2014 Nov. 4 General Election in a civil suit filed Oct. 30 in Superior Court against Elections Supervisor Caroline Fawkes, St. Thomas-St. John District Board of Elections Chairman Arturo Watlington, Jr., Joint Boards of Election Chairman Alecea Wells, and St. Croix District Board Chairman Adelbert Bryan to prevent the Board of Elections from stopping voters from scanning their ballots in the DS200 voting machines.<\/p>\n

    The Superior Court ruled against<\/a><\/span> Mapp; however, on appeal to the Supreme Court, Mapp won the case, granting voters the right to place their ballots into the DS200 machines. Fawkes was \u00a0ordered<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to make the machines available to voters for the Nov. 18 run-off election.<\/p>\n

    According to Griffiths’s\u00a0LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/span>, she established a law firm, Griffiths Law, in 2006 on St. Thomas. It also reveals the various firms the longtime attorney has worked for over the years.<\/p>\n

    The Mapp administration’s announcement of Griffiths’s appointment was accompanied by a biography of the lawyer.\u00a0It reads:<\/p>\n

    \u201cAttorney Griffiths has practiced law in the USVI since 1996 and has a strong background in Complex litigation, including, fraud, white collar crimes, toxic tort, government relations including zoning, and has handled numerous IRS tax controversies. She has served as a staff attorney for a federal judge in the state of Florida, and a probation and parole officer in three states (IL, SC, and MO).<\/em><\/p>\n

    \u201cAttorney Griffiths is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where she received her B.S. & J.D., Administration of Justice where she graduated Cum laude. Attorney Griffiths received her Master of Law (LLM) and Taxation degree from University of Florida \u2013 Fredric G. Levin College of Law Master of Laws (LLM), Taxation. Attorney Griffiths is a welcomed addition to Governor Mapp\u2019s administration.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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