Nomination of Grace Flores-Hughes To Be Director of the Community Relations Service at the Department of Justice

The President today announced his intention to nominate Grace Flores-Hughes to be Director, Community Relations Service, at the Department of Justice for a term of 4 years. She would succeed Gilbert G. Pompa.

Since 1985 Mrs. Flores-Hughes has been a special assistant in the Office of Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development at the Small Business Administration. In 1985 she was a special assistant in the Office of Public Liaison at the White House. From 1984 to 1985, Mrs. Flores-Hughes was a special assistant at the 50th Presidential Inaugural Committee in Washington, DC.

Mrs. Flores-Hughes graduated from the University of the District of Columbia (B.A., 1977) and Harvard University (M.P.A., 1980). She was born June 11, 1946, in Taft, TX. Mrs. Flores-Hughes is married and currently resides at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC.