Nomination of Delos Cy Jamison To Be Director of the Bureau of Land Management

The President today announced his intention to nominate Delos Cy Jamison to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management at the Department of the Interior. He would succeed Robert F. Burford.

Since 1985 Mr. Jamison has been a legislative adviser on the National Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee for the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs for the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to this he was district field director for Congressman Ron Marlenee from Montana. He has been a House liaison for the Secretary of the Interior, 1983 - 1984, and a Republican consultant on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1981 - 1983. He was a legislative affairs specialist for the Montana State Office of the Bureau of Land Management in Billings, MT, 1980 - 1981.

Mr. Jamison graduated from Eastern Montana College (B.S., 1971). He was born April 12, 1949, in Billings, MT, and currently resides in Washington, DC.