Appointment of Spencer E. Geissinger as Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Press Advance

The President today announced the appointment of Spencer E. Geissinger as Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Press Advance at the White House in Washington, DC.

Since 1990 Mr. Geissinger has served as Deputy Director of Presidential Advance for Press. He has served as the executive director of "Drug Use is Life Abuse," a nonprofit foundation in Orange County, CA, 1989 - 1990. Mr. Geissinger previously served in the Presidential Advance Office as a lead advance representative, January 1989 to June 1989. He has also served on two Presidential inaugural committees, as director of the inaugural balls and the opening ceremony in 1989 and in the office of public liaison for business and veterans groups in 1985. He served at the George Bush for President campaign 1988 as a lead advance representative and as a coordinator of special projects in the Vice Presidential advance office, 1986 - 1987. Mr. Geissinger also served at the Department of Labor as a Special Assistant to the Secretary for Advance and Scheduling, 1985 - 1986, and as a Mississippi field representative for voter programs in the Reagan/Bush '84 campaign. He served as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Agriculture, 1982 - 1984, and staff assistant on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Justice, Commerce and the Judiciary, Office of Senator Paul Laxalt, January 1982 to July 1982.

Mr. Geissinger attended the University of Nevada, Reno, studying agricultural economics. He is a native of California. He was born February 17, 1962. He is single and resides in Arlington, VA.