Nomination of Daniel F. Bonner To Be an Associate Director of ACTION

The President today announced his intention to nominate Daniel F. Bonner to be Associate Director of the ACTION Agency (Domestic and Anti-Poverty Operations). He would succeed Lawrence F. Davenport. Mr. Bonner joined ACTION in 1982 to manage the Agency's private sector liaison and to conduct a series of national workshops on voluntarism sponsored by the White House and ACTION. He was named Acting Associate Director for Domestic and Anti-Poverty Operations in July 1983. Prior to his ACTION service, Mr. Bonner was development officer for the Law and Economics Center at Emory University. In 1981 he was with the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Previously he was with the Chase Manhattan Bank.

He graduated from Fordham University (B.A., 1970) and New York University (M.A., 1973). He is married, has three children, and resides in Rockville, MD. He was born August 10, 1937, in New York, NY.