Nomination of Hilda Gay Legg To Be Alternate Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Hilda Gay Legg to be Alternate Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission. She would succeed Jacqueline L. Phillips.

Since 1988 Mrs. Legg has served as an instructor of sociology and social work at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, KY. Prior to this, she served as director of admissions at Lindsey Wilson College, 1987 - 1988; field representative for United States Senator Mitch McConnell in Bowling Green, KY, 1985 - 1987; Acting Executive Director of the National Council on the Handicapped at the Department of Education in Washington, DC, 1981 - 1983; and a teacher in the Adair County public schools in Columbia, KY, 1974 - 1981.

Mrs. Legg received a bachelor of science degree from Campbellsville College and a master of arts degree from Western Kentucky University. She was born October 7, 1952, in Campbellsville, KY. She is married and resides in Milltown, KY.