The President today announced that he will nominate Omi G. Walden, of Atlanta, Ga., to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy. Her area of responsibility would be conservation and solar applications.
Walden was born December 25, 1945, in Alma, Ga. She received an A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1967.
In 1968 and 1969, she was assistant director for public relations at the Georgia Ports Authority, and from 1970 to 1973, she was director of public relations for the HUD Model Cities Program in Alma, Ga., which she also served as research and evaluation coordinator and citizen participation coordinator.
From 1973 to 1976, Walden served as Federal/State relations coordinator and a policy adviser on energy and environmental issues for Georgia Governors Jimmy Carter and George Busbee.
Since 1976 she has been director of the Georgia Office of Energy Resources, which she was responsible for establishing.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Energy Nomination of Omi G. Walden To Be an Assistant Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248424