The President today announced his intention to nominate Steven Alan Minter, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, to be Under Secretary of Education, a new position.
Minter has been program officer and vice president of the Cleveland Foundation since 1975, handling grants in health. and social services and assisting in civic affairs.
He was born on October 23, 1938, in Akron, Ohio. He received a B.A. in education from Baldwin-Wallace College in 1960 and a master's degree in social administration from Case Western Reserve University in 1963.
From 1960 to 1970, Minter was with the Cuyahoga County Welfare Department, beginning as a caseworker and finally serving as director of the department in 1969 and 1970. From 1970 to 1975, he was commissioner of public welfare for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Minter is president of the American Public Welfare Association and serves on the board of trustees of the Child Welfare League of America. He is on the board of directors of the Association of Black Foundation Executives.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Education Nomination of Steven Alan Minter To Be Under Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249794