Eugene "Ted" Hendry (born August 31, 1940) is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1977 to 1999, wearing uniform number 35 when the AL adopted numbers for its umpires in 1980.
 Hendry umpired 2,906 major league games in his 23-year career.
 He umpired in the 1990 World Series, two All-Star Games (1983 and 1995), four American League Championship Series (1985, 1988, 1993 and 1998), and the 1996 American League Division Series.
 Hendry was also the home plate umpire of Bret Saberhagen's no hitter in 1991 and Jim Abbott's no hitter in 1993.
Arnold Raum ((1908--) 27, 1908 – (1999--) 13, 1999 ) served as a judge on the United States Tax Court from 1950 to 1998.
 He began working for the United States government in 1932, as an attorney for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
 From 1934 to 1950, he worked in the United States Department of Justice, as a special assistant in the Tax Division (1934–1939), as special assistant to the U.S. District Attorney for Louisiana (1939), and as Deputy Solicitor General (1939–1950).
Clay T. "Tom" Whitehead (November 13, 1938 – July 23, 2008 ) was a United States government official who served as Special Assistant to the President from 1968-1970; Director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP) from 1970 to 1974 during the Nixon administration; clandestinely, Director of the Ford Transition Team immediately before Nixon's resignation; and an operative in the White House during the initial phases of the Ford transition.
 Both as Special Assistant to the President and Director of OTP, Whitehead pioneered a policy of competition across the telecommunications industries, which later was reflected in legislation and regulations in the United States and around the world.
Jim Hendry MBE (born 10 October 1939) was a Scottish professional cyclist between 1965 and 1969.
 He began to coach in the 1960s before holding several voluntary management and coaching positions.
 He became British Cycling's Director of Racing in 1979 and was responsible for the selection and Management of Great Britain cycling teams.
 He was appointed British Cycling's Chief Executive in 1988 and was later general secretary.
 Hendry was made an MBE for his services to cycling in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2007.
 He is British Cycling's honorary archivist.
Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser Jr. (July 5, 1942 – January 11, 2012) was an American-Canadian financier and a former owner of the Denver Broncos American football team.
 He was born in Portland, Oregon on July 5, 1942 and is the grandson of shipbuilding industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.
 He earned a BA degree from Stanford University and an MBA degree from Harvard University.
 Kaiser served as a White House Fellow and as a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Richard M. Nixon, and as a Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel.
 He became a Canadian citizen in 1980.
 He died on January 11, 2012.
Bill Wood (born 1941) was the Assistant Director of Scouting and Minor League Clubs for the Houston Astros in 1977 and 1978 and the Astros' Director of Minor League Operations from 1979 to 1985.
 He was the Assistant General Manager in 1986 and 1987, and was promoted to General Manager (GM) on December 7, 1987.
 He was noted for his failure to draft Derek Jeter from the 1992 MLB Draft with the first overall pick, a decision he later said he regretted.
 Nevertheless, he is also remembered for trading or Jeff Bagwell.
 He served as GM until he was fired on October 6, 1993.
 He was hired as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Cincinnati Reds in December 2003 and served in that capacity from 2004 to 2005.
Dylan Orr (born 1979) is the Director of the Office of Labor Standards for the City of Seattle.
 Appointed by Mayor Murray in May 2015, Orr is responsible for enforcing Seattle's historic minimum wage law, as well as its paid sick and safe time law, wage theft law, and fair chance employment law.
 Previously, Orr served as Chief of Staff to Assistant Secretary Kathy Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy.
 As part of the United States Department of Labor, he contributed to the development of national disability employment-related regulations and policies, including regulations issued under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
 As the Department of Labor representative, he also worked with the White House Office of National AIDS Policy on the implementation of the President's National HIV/AIDS Strategy, in addition to making significant contributions to several federal LGBT policies and regulations.
 Previously, he served as Special Assistant/Advisor to Assistant Secretary Martinez.
 Upon his appointment to his role as Special Assistant in 2009, he became the first openly transgender person appointed to any U.S. presidential administration.
Brian McGuire Cashman (born July 3, 1967) is an American baseball executive for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
 He has served as the General Manager and Senior Vice President of the Yankees since 1998.
 During Cashman's tenure as general manager, the Yankees have won six American League pennants and four World Series championships.
Richard Ward Reuter (1918–2005) was an American executive known for working at relief agencies.
 A pacifist and a conscientious objector, he worked with the American Friends Service Committee during World War II.
 He joined CARE in 1946 and served as its Executive Director from 1955 to 1962.
 In that role he led a revitalizing and repurposing of the organization.
 He also worked in conjunction with the start of the Peace Corps.
 He was then appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 to serve as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Food for Peace, succeeding the founding director, George McGovern.
 He stayed in that role through 1965 when, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, the program was subsumed under the United States Department of State.
 There he became Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Food for Peace, until he left in 1966, reportedly dismayed by the direction the food program was taking.
 After leaving the government, he worked for Kraft Foods from 1967 to 1984, becoming a vice president and director of purchasing.
Jim Hendry (born July 27, 1955, Dunedin, Florida) is currently a special assistant for New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman, and is a former Vice President/General Manager of the Chicago Cubs.
 Hendry was promoted to GM on July 5, 2002 by former Cubs President/CEO Andy MacPhail.
 He worked for the Cubs from 1995 to 2011.
 Prior to his promotion to GM, he was named Assistant GM/Player Personnel Director on October 12, 2001, and previously the Director of Player Development, in charge of both Scouting and Minor League Operations.

Question: Jim Hendry is a special assistant to the GM who has served in such capacity since what year?
Answer: 1998