The President today announced his intention to nominate Mary Sterling to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Management Standards. She would succeed Salvatore R. Martoche.
Since 1988 Ms. Sterling has served as an attorney with the law firm of McDowell, Rice and Smith in Kansas City, MO. Prior to this, she served as executive director of the Bush-Quayle campaign for the State of Missouri, 1988. In addition, she has served in several positions at the United States Department of Justice: White House fellow and Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, 1987 - 1988; organized crime prosecutor in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, 1985 - 1986; and an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri, 1982 - 1985. Ms. Sterling also served as an associate with Watson, Ess, Marshall and Enggas in Kansas City, MO., 1980 - 1982.
Ms. Sterling graduated from Harvard University (A.B., 1976), Ohio State University (M.A., 1977), and New York University School of Law (J.D., 1980). She was born September 4, 1955, in Pioneer, OH. She is married and resides in Kansas City, MO.
George Bush, Nomination of Mary Sterling To Be an Assistant Secretary of Labor Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/263987