Nomination of Barbara Lerner To Be an Assistant Secretary of Education

The President today announced his intention to nominate Barbara Lerner to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of Education. She would succeed Harry M. Singleton, who has resigned.

Since 1981 Dr. Lerner has been president of Lerner Associates and has been on the New Jersey Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since 1985. She was with the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ, as a senior research scientist (1980-1981) and a visiting scholar (1978-1979), and served as an adviser on several joint committees with the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association for testing standards. She was an associate professor of psychology at Roosevelt University in Chicago (1972-1974) and at Ohio University in Athens (1968-1970).

Dr. Lerner graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana (B.A., 1956) and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1961; Ph.D., 1965; J.D., 1977). She is single and resides in Princeton, NJ. She was born March 31, 1935, Chicago IL.