Federal Emergency Management Agency Nomination of Gloria Cusumano Jimenez To Be an Associate Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate Gloria Cusumano Jimenez, of Durham, N.C., to be an Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Her area of responsibility would be insurance and hazard mitigation.

Jimenez has been Acting Associate Director of FEMA since last April.

She was born July 1, 1932, in New York City. She received an LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1954. From 1955 to 1966, she practiced law in New York, and in 1965 and 1966, she also served as district aide to Congressman Richard Ottinger. From 1968 to 1970, she was director of housing and urban programs for the North Carolina Department of Local Affairs.

From 1971 to 1974, Jimenez was a housing consultant and assistant director of the Low Income Housing Development Corporation in Durham, N.C. She was deputy commissioner and general counsel of the North Carolina Department of Insurance from 1975 to 1978.

In 1978 Jimenez was appointed Federal Insurance Administrator. She was appointed Acting Associate Director of FEMA after the Federal Insurance Administration's insurance and hazard mitigation functions were transferred to FEMA under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978.