Nomination of Kathleen W. Lawrence To Be Under Secretary of Agriculture and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Kathleen W. Lawrence to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development and to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation. She would succeed Frank W. Naylor, Jr.

Since 1983 Mrs. Lawrence has been with the Department of Agriculture as Deputy Director, Office of Rural Development Policy. From 1984 to the present, she has been serving as the Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development. Previously, she was the president of the Lawrence Co., a management consulting firm that she started, in Alexandria, VA, 1978-1981; executive director, National Federation of Republican Women, 1975-1976; and executive assistant to the president, National Retail Merchants Association, 1973-1974.

Mrs. Lawrence attended Queens College and the University of Virginia. She is married, has three children, and resides in Alexandria, VA. She was born December 7, 1940, in New York City.