Nomination of Kenneth A. Gilles To Be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Kenneth A. Gilles to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (Marketing and Inspection Services), where he would succeed Raymond D. Lett, and to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, where he would succeed C.W. McMillan.

Since 1981 Dr. Gilles has been Administrator, Inspection Services, Department of Agriculture. He was vice president for agricultural affairs at the University of North Dakota, 1969-1981; acting director, agricultural experiment station, 1978-1979; acting director, cooperative extension service, 1972-1974; and professor and chairman, department of cereal technology, 1961-1970. Dr. Gilles was also a research engineer with Pillsbury Mills, Inc., an instructor at the University of Minnesota, and a senior biochemist with General Mills, Inc.

Dr. Gilles graduated from the University of Minnesota (B.S., 1944; Ph.D., 1952). He is married, has two children, and resides in Alexandria, VA. He was born March 6, 1922, in Minneapolis, MN.