Nomination of Jill Houghton Emery To Be Director of the Women's Bureau

The President today announced his intention to nominate Jill Houghton Emery to be Director of the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor. She would succeed Shirley Dennis.

Since 1985 Mrs. Emery has been Deputy Director of the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC. Previously she was Director of the Office of Women's Business Ownership at the Small Business Administration, 1985, and Special Assistant to the Administrator at the Small Business Administration, 1985. From 1983 to 1984, Mrs. Emery was president of the Emery Corp. in New York.

Mrs. Emery graduated from State University of New York College at Geneseo (B.S., 1965). She was born May 28, 1943, in Bangor, ME. She is married, has three children, and resides in Washington, DC.