Nomination of LaJuana Sue Wilcher To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate LaJuana Sue Wilcher to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Water Programs). She would succeed Lawrence J. Jensen.

Since 1986 Ms. Wilcher has served as a partner with Bishop, Cook, Purcell and Reynolds. Prior to this, she served as Assistant to the Deputy Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, 1985 - 1986; Special Assistant to the General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency, 1983 - 1985; and Special Assistant to the General Counsel at the Department of Agriculture, 1983. She has served as a trial attorney at Reynolds, Catron, and Johnston in Kentucky, 1980 - 1983.

Ms. Wilcher graduated from Western Kentucky University (B.A., 1977) and Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University (J.D., 1980). She was born September 16, 1954, in Danville, KY. She resides in Annandale, VA.