Nomination of Donna F. Tuttle To Be Deputy Secretary of Commerce

The President today announced his intention to nominate Donna F. Tuttle to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce. She would succeed Clarence J. Brown.

Since 1983 Mrs. Tuttle has been Under Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she was state finance chairman for the Carol Hallet campaign for Lieutenant Governor of California, 1982; state finance director for the Mike Curb Committee, 1981-1982; and speaker's bureau chairman for the State of California for the Reagan-Bush campaign and national chairman for Youth for Reagan, 1980.

Mrs. Tuttle graduated from the University of Southern California (B.A., 1969). She was born April 21, 1947. She is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC.