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Department of Homeland Security Director Mencer Announces Resignation

Release Date: 12/16/04 00:00:00

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-2010
December 16, 2004

C. Suzanne Mencer, the Executive Director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, announced today that she will resign effective January 31, 2005.  

Director Mencer was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate on September 16, 2003 to head the Office for Domestic Preparedness, the federal government’s lead agency responsible for preparing the nation against terrorism.  Subsequent to Mencer’s confirmation, the Office for Domestic Preparedness was merged with the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Mencer was tapped to oversee the newly created OSLGCP.

Following a twenty-year career in counterintelligence and counterterrorism at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mrs. Mencer served Colorado as the Director of Public Safety for three years prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security.  

“Throughout her career in public service, and most recently at the Department of Homeland Security, Sue Mencer has made invaluable contributions to our nation’s security,” said Secretary Tom Ridge.  “Sue’s leadership has enabled us to streamline the grant application process and to refine the matrix which allocates funding to the urban areas at greatest risk.  She has also built bridges across the first responder groups to ensure better protection of our communities.  I am grateful for Sue’s service to the Department of Homeland Security and to our country.”

“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve President Bush and to work with Secretary Ridge.  Our nation is more secure today because of them.  I now look forward to returning home to my family in Colorado,” stated Mencer.

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