Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Nomination of John L. Palmer To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate John L. Palmer, of Great Falls, Va., to be an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He would replace Benjamin Heineman, resigned, and his area of responsibility would be planning and evaluation. Palmer has been Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of HEW for planning and evaluation since 1979.

He was born April 10, 1943, in Upper Darby, Pa. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1965 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1970.

In 1968 Palmer was a research associate at the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty, and from 1969 to 1971, he was a research associate at Stanford University's Institute for Public Policy Analysis and an assistant professor of economics.

From 1971 to 1973, Palmer was senior staff economist in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of HEW for Planning and Evaluation. From 1973 to 1975, he was Director of the Office of Income Security Policy at HEW. From 1975 to 1978, he was a senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Palmer has served as a consultant to various government agencies and private foundations and as chairman of the National Conference on Social Welfare's task force on income security policy. He was a member of the Committee on Evaluation of Federal Poverty Research of the National Research Council and is the author of numerous publications.