Nomination of J. Craig Potter To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate J. Craig Potter to be an Assistant Administrator (Air and Radiation) of the Environmental Protection Agency. He would succeed Joseph A. Cannon.

Mr. Potter is currently Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior. Previously, at the Department of the Interior he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife (1982-1985) and special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks (1981-1982). He served on the professional staffs of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee (1978-1981) and the U.S. Senate Government Affairs Committee (1977-1978). He was chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee in 1976-1977.

Mr. Potter graduated from the University of Illinois (A.B., 1967) and the University of Wyoming (J.D., 1972). He is married, has one child, and resides in Alexandria, VA. He was born December 23, 1943, in La Jolla, CA.