commissioner
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He worked some in the public sector, winning a seat as a county commissioner in Omaha in the late 1980s, and he chaired the state ethanol board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Chris Slevin, who visited Beijing in July as a commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said Chinese officials peppered his delegation with questions about the bilateral AI dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“At the time, I was the first commissioner in the agency’s 37-year history to speak fluent Russian, the language of the world’s largest Arctic nation.”
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Early in 2025, Russia's human rights commissioner published a list of 517 Kursk residents reported missing.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Then he organized a committee of black leaders to meet downtown with the police commissioner.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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In 1989, he took office on the county board of commissioners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
After filming Teasdale across five years, Mitchell shelved his documentary when commissioners lost interest.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
It is also unclear whether the final fence will be approximately 8 feet tall throughout the park or reach as high as 11 feet in some areas, as commissioners were told in July.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Legal disclosure flushed out some internal communications which reflect badly on the six government-appointed commissioners.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
The French reacted “as if it had been a victory of their own troops over their own enemies,” the commissioners reported.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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