Service (with the date they took office listed and the President who made the appointment shown in parentheses), are as follows: On June 15, 2021, President Biden announced his intent to nominate Javier Ramirez to be the next Director. Cyrus S. Ching (1947; Truman) David L. Cole (1952; Truman) Whitney P. McCoy (1953; Eisenhower) Joseph F. Finnegan (1955; Eisenhower) William E. Simkin (1961; Kennedy), the longest-serving Director, departing office in 1969 J. Curtis Counts (1970; Nixon) William Usery, Jr. (1973; Nixon) James F. Scearce (1976; Ford) Wayne L. Horvitz (1977; Carter) Kenneth Moffett (1982; Reagan), served for seven months. Kay McMurray (1982; Reagan) Bernard E. DeLury (1990; G. H. W. Bush) John Calhoun Wells (1993; Clinton) C. Richard Barnes (1999; Clinton) Peter J. Hurtgen (2002; G. W. Bush) Arthur F. Rosenfeld (2006; G. W. Bush) George H. Cohen (2009; Obama) Allison Beck (2014; Obama), the first woman to serve as director Richard Giacolone (2018; Donald J. Trump) Notable roles and events Representatives of the FMCS played a role in negotiations between Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and the Marine and Shipbuilding Workers in a strike that started in June 1947. In 1973, a Relationship-by-Objectives (RBO) program is developed for use in extreme cases of poor labor-management relations, when continued deterioration of the relationship could have drastic economic effect. The first RBO program is delivered in Maine on behalf of the Georgia-Pacific Company and Paperworkers Local 27. In 1975, FMCS officially entered a new arena: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Congress passes Public Law 93-531, directing the Service to mediate a 100-year old land dispute between the Hopi and Navajo Indian Tribes in Arizona. In 1978, Congress extended the FMCS charter to mediate disputes beyond the private sector to the Federal government. In November,1979, FMCS began mediating age discrimination complaints. In 1983, FMCS was the first agency to provide the service of negotiated rulemaking, or “reg-neg.” Conducted with the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation, regulations were developed to deal with flight and duty time of pilots. The institutionalization of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) came with the passage of the ADR Act of 1990 which created the responsibility of every federal agency to look at its mission and to see what could be resolved through ADR techniques; also to establish an ADR coordinator, and to promote these efforts. FMCS testified and described the kind of work it did both for promoting ADR and