Nomination of George Woloshyn To Be an Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate George Woloshyn to be an Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Emergency Management). He would succeed Charles M. Girard.

Since 1982 Mr. Woloshyn has been Associate Director at the Office of Personnel Management and prior to that as Deputy General Counsel, March 1982 to November 1982. Previously, he was a real estate contract officer and manager of industrial development with Amtrak, 1978-1982; an attorney in private law practice in New York City and legal counsel for the New York City Transit Authority.

Mr. Woloshyn graduated from Fordham University (B.S., 1965 and J.D., 1974) and the State University of New York Baruch Graduate School of Business (M.B.A., 1972). He is married, has two children, and resides in Falls Church, VA. Mr. Woloshyn was born October 15, 1943, in Kuphovychi, Ukraine.