Department of Energy Nomination of Ruth C. Clusen To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Ruth C. Clusen, of Green Bay, Wis., to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy. Her area of responsibility would be environment.

Clusen was born June 11, 1922, in Bruce, Wis. She received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1945.

Clusen was a teacher from 1947 to 1951 and in 1957-58. She has been with the League of Women Voters since 1946, and served as president from 1974 to May 1978.

Clusen has served as an environmental consultant to the Interior Department, the Conservation Foundation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. She was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Committee on Environmental Protection in Moscow in 1974, and participated in the U.N. Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972.