New at Daimler: Drew Backeberg promoted to general manager-Western Region, succeeding Rick Eubanks, who will retire Dec. 31.

The Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) hired Stephen Schaefer as vice president, ECAT said. Schaefer has worked as an international trade lawyer in the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Minority Chief Trade Counsel Viji Rangaswami for the House Ways and Means Committee is leaving the committee. Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee. Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) wished her well in an opening statement of a Sept. 20 hearing on international service agreements. Rangaswami is "leaving the Committee after over a decade of service" and has provided important contributions in "her work on free trade agreements, our preference programs, our trade remedy laws, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and China policy," he said. The Democratic office of the House Ways and Means committee declined to comment further.

President Obama nominated Sylvia Becker, partner at Kaye Scholer, to be a member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the U.S.

Crowell and Moring hired Cheryl Falvey, general counsel at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, as a partner, effective Oct. 1.

Daimler Trading promotes Marcela Barreiro to director-legal for Mexico, replacing Joséé Angel Gutiéérrez, who took another position in the company.

Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg hired Lori Hill as director of customs audits and compliance, the firm said. Hill previously worked as import compliance manager in the international trade compliance department of Tyco International Management Company.

Linda Menghetti Dempsey, ex-Emergency Committee for American Trade, has joined the National Association of Manufacturers as vice president for international economic affairs.

Meredith Broadbent was sworn in as a Commissioner of the International Trade Commission Sept. 11. She will fill the Commission term expiring on June 16, 2017.

President Obama said he plans to nominate Scott Kieff as a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission, and Joshua Wright a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. Kieff is a professor at The George Washington University Law School and a Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation and serves on the Property Rights Task Force. Wright is a professor at George Mason University School of Law and was a Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition from January 2007 to July 2008.