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The Governor’s Cabinet
Thursday, March 15, 2012
10 O’clock AM
Government House
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
United States Virgin Islands

Governor John P. de Jongh, Jr. &
Lieutenant Governor Gregory R. Francis
Angel E. Dawson, Jr, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
Vincent F. Frazer, Esq., Attorney General
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Debra Gottlieb, Director
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
La Verne Terry, Ed.D, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Darryl Smalls, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
St. Claire Williams, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING, PARKS & RECREATION
Henry W. White, Jr. , Commissioner*
VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Lynn A. Millin-Maduro, Esq.,Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY AND PROCUREMENT
Beverly Nicholson-Doty, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM
Louis E. Petersen, Jr., Ph.D.,Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Albert Bryan, Jr., Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mercedes K.C. Dullum, MD, Commissioner*
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Christopher Finch, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Alicia Barnes, Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND
NATURAL RESOURCES
Wayne L. Biggs, Jr., Commissioner
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND
CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Kenneth Hermon, Jr., PHR, Director
DIVISION OF PERSONNEL
Major General Renaldo Rivera
Adjutant General
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL GUARD
Valdemar Hill, Ph.D., Chief Negotiator
OFFICE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Claudette J. Watson-Anderson, CPA
Director
BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE
Steve O. Brow, Director
VIRGIN ISLANDS FIRE SERVICE
Angel Turnbull, Acting Director
BUREAU OF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Jerris T. Browne, Director
BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Brigadier General Elton Lewis
Director
VITEMA
Julius Wilson, Director
BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS
Pamela B. Berkowsky
CHIEF OF STAFF
Nathan Simmonds
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF

Master of Ceremonies......................................................... Mr. Dodson James
St. Croix Administrator
Posting of Colors.....................................................JROTC Color Guard
Ivanna Eudora Kean High School
National Anthem/Virgin Islands March...........................Ms. Besha Liburd
Invocation..........................................................Reverend Dr. Bentley Thomas
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Introduction of Platform Guests..................................Master of Ceremonies
Welcome............................................................ Honorable Gregory R. Francis
Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands
Administration of Oath of Office........................ Honorable Rhys S. Hodge
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands
Introduction of Henry W. White, Jr........................... Master of Ceremonies
Response.................................. Commissioner of Police, Henry W. White, Jr.
Introduction of Mercedes K.C. Dullum, MD........... Master of Ceremonies
Response.................. Commissioner of Health, Mercedes K.C. Dullum, MD
Remarks............................................................... Honorable Ronald E. Russell
President, 29th Legislature
Remarks...........................................................Honorable John P. de Jongh, Jr.
Governor of the Virgin Islands
Benediction................................................................... Rabbi Asher Federman
Director of the Chabad Jewish Center

irgin Islands Police
Commissioner Henry W.
White Jr. earned his Bachelor’s Degree
in Public Safety Administration from
the William Patterson University in
Wayne, New Jersey and obtained
graduate credits and a certificate
in Public Management from the
University of Southern California,
certificate in Executive Development
from the FBI Academy in Quantico,
GA, Post Certification, Austell GA,
and GA Police Chief Executive
Program for Columbus State
University.
Mr. White is a 30 year veteran
in law enforcement and recently
fulfilled a National Security position
with the Federal Government in
Washington D.C. Mr. White served
for 22 years as a Special Agent of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation at the
Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo and
Washington, D.C. Headquarters.
Mr. White joined the Navy
after graduating from high
school and six years later he was
honorably discharged and joined
the East Orange, New Jersey Police
Department where he worked as a
patrol officer, detective and patrol
sergeant with local, county and state
law enforcement. During his tenure,
Mr. White represented East Orange
for 2 ½ years as an investigator for
the Essex County Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs. Additionally,
Mr. White served as a State
Investigator in the Diversion
Investigation Unit of the New Jersey
Division of Criminal Justice.
From 1976 to 1998, Mr. White
has held various positions within the
FBI to include Field Supervisor to the
FBI’s New York office (the largest
in the nation), Supervisory Special
Agent, Coordinating Supervisory
Special Agent, as well as positions
as Assistant Inspector-In-Place, NY
Office Violent Crimes Coordinator
and as Acting Assistant Special
Agent-in-Charge. Mr. White served
as an FBI headquarters supervisor/
program manager and additionally
performed as an instructor to new
agents and FBI National Academy
attendees at the FBI training facility
in Quantico, Virgina. Mr. White
retired in 1998 as a Special Agent in
the FBI’s Rochester Resident Agency,
Buffalo Division.
From 2003-2004, Mr. White
served as Police Chief of Henry
County Bureau of Police Services
where he led the 208 member police
force. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. White
performed in an administrative and
confidential capacity as a Personal
Service Contractor for the FBI’s
Counter Terrorism Division Program
at Washington D.C. From 2009 to
2011; Mr. White has worked as a
Criminal Justice Consultant before
accepting the appointment as the US
Virgin Islands Police Commissioner.

. Mercedes Kathryn
Carina Dullum, a renowned
cardiothoracic surgeon, was nominated
by Gov. John P. de Jongh Jr. on November
7, 2011 to head the U.S. Virgin Islands
Department of Health. She was confirmed
on Feb. 8, 2012 by the 29th Legislature.
Dr. Dullum, the first physician
since 2003 tapped to head the Department
of Health, earned her medical degree
from the Medical College of Georgia and
completed her general surgery residency
at the University of Mississippi Medical
Center and her Thoracic Surgery residency
at the George Washington Medical Center
in Washington, D.C. Her professional
experience includes 18 years in a multiphysician,
multi- million dollar practice in
Washington, D.C. where she was named
one of the top cardiac surgeons.
In addition to D.C., she holds
physician licenses in the states of
Maryland and Florida. More recently,
she worked in active practice of cardiac
surgery for several years at the Cleveland
Clinic in Florida, where her positions
included Medical Director of International
Patient Services and Director of Cardiac
Surgery. She has been involved in quality
improvement initiatives and positions for
much of her career which spans 30 years.
Dr. Dullum is affiliated with
several medical societies including
Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American
Heart Association and American College
of Cardiology and is certified with the
National Board of Medical Examiners,
American Board of Surgery, and American
Board of Thoracic Surgery among others.
She has made several presentations and
co-authored more than 30 publications on
issues relative to invasive cardiac surgery.
Past and present appointments include
President, Women in Thoracic Surgery
from 2003-2005; Medical director with
International Patient Services Cleveland
Clinic, Florida and an expert panel member
with the Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. Dullum is no stranger to
the Virgin Islands and is well-known
and well-respected from years of
leadership in providing education and
training opportunities to the V.I. medical
community. She is credited for lending
her expertise through her work at
Cleveland Clinic to health care providers
in the Territory for the establishment of
the Telemedicine facility at Myrah Keating
Clinic on St. John with the Cleveland
Clinic Florida. She has fought to reverse
healthcare disparities both in the U.S.
Virgin Islands and in the Caribbean, a
region whose culture and approach to
medicine that she is keenly familiar with
having been born and raised in Jamaica,
West Indies.
At the start of her career,
Dr. Dullum was one of a ratio of fivewomen
to 5,500-men in the field of
thoracic surgery. She became a pioneer
in her field and is credited today with the
creation of minimally invasive surgery, a
procedure that does not require cutting
open a person’s chest. Minimally invasive
surgery is much more difficult as the heart
is still beating and the surgeon works by
gazing through a small hole. Meeting such
challenges and the determination honed
with it, began in earnest as an 11-year-old,
when she realized she wanted to become
a doctor. Back then, Dr. Dullum would
accompany her father and brothers to
patch them up during their go-kart and
racing events. The winning trophy was
inscribed “Guts and Determination” and
this embodied the attitude that she has
come to identify as a family trait. She
considers her mother, Zena Mercedes
Yvonne Dullum, to be her best role model.
She is married to Robert L.
Lechner, PhD in Molecular Biology,
and they are proud parents of Elizabeth
Kingsley Lechner, M.D.

Kongens Gade 21-22,
Kings Quarter, St. Thomas
Government House on Kongens
Gade served as the official residence
of the Governor since Danish Colonial
times. Discussions to replace an earlier
structure of 1819 with the present
Government House began in the Colonial
Council in 1864, and work began in
August of that year. The cornerstone was
laid by the Vice Governor Chamberlain
Louis Rothe, Knight of Dannebrog,
who was also President of the Colonial
Council, in a ceremony on April 8, 1865.
That date was chosen because it was
the forty-seventh birthday of His Most
Gracious Majesty, King Christian the
Ninth.
From that date until 1872, Government
House was the home of the Vice
Governor. From 1872 when the capital
moved from St. Croix back to St. Thomas,
the building was not only the focus of
official life but also the residence of the
Governor.
The small, red wooden sentry
box at the foot of the entrance staircase
outside Government House is an
authentic Danish guardhouse, as used
by sentries in front of the queen’s palaces
and military facilities in Denmark. It was
presented to Government House by the
Danish West Indian Society in 1967 on
the 50th anniversary of the Transfer of
the Virgin Islands.
Government House is a large,
formal, three-story building of imported
Danish yellow brick with neoclassical
detailing of quoins, belt coursing and an
elaborate projecting cornice of brick with
dentil course. The building is crowned
with a brick parapet and low hip roof
behind it. The most outstanding feature
is the ornate cast iron porch on the first
and second stories with fluted columns
and a fancy cast iron cornice around the
porch roof.
The contractor chosen was a
master carpenter or “tommermester”
from St. Croix named Richard Bright. Mr.
Bright, a Crucian, lived on St. Thomas;
his home still stands on Kongens
Gade today. Richard Bright died in the
summer of 1866, at which point the roof
was on and the floors in, but the exterior
and interior finishing were incomplete.
The building was finally completed in
1867 by George Nunes & Company.

Henry w. White, jr.
Commissioner
Virgin Islands Police Department
Nominated:
November 7, 2011
Rules Committee Confirmed:
January 12, 2012
Full Senate Confirmed:
February 8, 2012
Mercedes K.C. Dullum, MD
Commissioner
Department of Health
Nominated:
November 7, 2011
Rules Committee Confirmed:
January 12, 2012
Full Senate Confirmed:
February 8, 2012

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