Nomination of Josephine S. Cooper To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Josephine S. Cooper to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Congressional and External Affairs). This is a new position created by P.L. 98-80 of August 23, 1983.

Since 1981 she has been serving on the professional staff to Senator Howard Baker and on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. She served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency in 1980-1981 and in 1979. Previously she was legislative assistant to Senator Howard Baker and to Congressman Dick Cheney and an American Political Science Association congressional fellow in 1979-1980; environmental protection specialist, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, EPA Office of Research and Development, at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, in 1978-1979; and as program analyst in the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, EPA, at Research Triangle Park in 1971-1978.

Ms. Cooper graduated from Meredith College (B.A., 1967) and Duke University (M.S., 1977). She resides in Alexandria, Va., and was born August 2, 1945.