Nomination of Carol Fraser Fisk To Be Commissioner on Aging at the Department of Health and Human Services

The President today announced his intention to nominate Carol Fraser Fisk to be Commissioner on Aging, Office of Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services. She would succeed Marie P. Tolliver.

Since 1984 Mrs. Fisk has been Acting Commissioner, Administration on Aging. She was special assistant in the Office of Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services, 1981-1984; senior research associate, National Association of Counties Research, Washington, DC, 1979-1981; project coordinator, Arlington County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services Board, 1978-1979; assistant director, Arlington United Way, 1977-1978; and acting director, research and statistics division, Northern Virginia Planning District Commission, 1972-1977.

Mrs. Fisk graduated from Connecticut College (B.A., 1968), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (M.A., 1972), and Harvard University (government managers program, 1983). She resides in Arlington, VA, and was born March 2, 1946, in Brooklyn, NY.