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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§4002 Establishment of Selection Boards

Title 22 › CHAPTER 52 — FOREIGN SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER VI — PROMOTION AND RETENTION › § 4002

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must set up selection boards to check how well Senior Foreign Service members and other Foreign Service staff in a salary class are doing. The boards must rank people under rules the Secretary makes. They can recommend things like promotions (under section 4001), performance pay awards (section 3965(c)), denying within-class step increases (section 3966(a)), offering or renewing limited career extensions (section 4007(b)), and other actions the Secretary puts in regulation. Every board must include public members. The Secretary must make sure many women and people from minority groups are on each board. Public members cannot be agents of a foreign principal (see section 611(b)), foreign-entity lobbyists (see 2 U.S.C. 1602(6)), or get money from a foreign government when they join or while they serve.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §4002

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Evaluation of performance; recommendations
The Secretary shall establish selection boards to evaluate the performance of members of the Senior Foreign Service and members of the Service assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule. Selection boards shall, in accordance with precepts prescribed by the Secretary, rank the members of a salary class on the basis of relative performance and may make recommendations for— (1)
(2)awards of performance pay under section 3965(c) of this title;
(3)denials of within-class step increases under section 3966(a) of this title;
(4)offer or renewal of limited career extensions under section 4007(b) of this title; and
(5)such other actions as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation.
(b)Public members; appointment of women and minority groups
All selection boards established under this section shall include public members. The Secretary shall assure that a substantial number of women and members of minority groups are appointed to each selection board established under this section.
(c)Disqualification for service on foreign service selection boards
No public members appointed pursuant to this section may be, at the time of their appointment or during their appointment, an agent of a foreign principal (as defined by section 611(b) of this title) or a lobbyist for a foreign entity (as defined in section 1602(6) of title 2) or receive income from a government of a foreign country.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1995—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–65 inserted “or a lobbyist for a foreign entity (as defined in section 1602(6) of title 2)” before “or receive income”. 1990—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–246 added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1995 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 104–65 effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided, see section 24 of Pub. L. 104–65, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 1601 of Title 2, The Congress.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 4002

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110