National Consumer Cooperative Bank Nomination of Alexis Herman To Be a Member of the Board of Directors.

The President today announced that he will nominate Alexis Herman to be a member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank, a new position.

Herman is Director of the Women's Bureau at the Labor Department and would serve on the Board of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank as a Government representative.

She was born July 16, 1947, in Mobile, Ala. She received a B.A. from Xavier University in 1969.

From 1969 to 1972, Herman was a social worker for Catholic Social Services in Mobile. From 1972 to 1974, she was director of the Black Women Employment Program of the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta and from 1974 to 1977, she was national director of women's programs for the Minority Women Employment Program of the Recruitment and Training Program, Inc., in Atlanta.

Herman has been director of the Women's Bureau since 1977. One of her responsibilities is chairing the task force which coordinates and monitors the minority bank deposit program and contracts to minority-owned businesses and women owned businesses.