The President announced his intention today to nominate Sheila E. Widnall, associate provost of MIT and vice chair of the Carnegie Corporation Board, to be the Secretary of the Air Force. Ms. Widnall will be the first woman Service Secretary.
"I am very proud to be making this announcement," said the President. "Sheila Widnall is a woman of high achievement: a respected scientist, a skilled administrator, and a dedicated citizen. I am confident that she will do an outstanding job of guiding the Air Force through this period of post-cold-war change."
NOTE: A biography of the nominee was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary.
William J. Clinton, Nomination for Secretary of the Air Force Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/219514