Nomination of Peter C. Myers To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Peter C. Myers, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation. He would succeed John R. Norton III.

Since June of this year Mr. Myers has been Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, United States Department of Agriculture, 1985-1986; Chief, Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1982-1985; and following his discharge from the United States Army in 1955, he began operation of his own row crop and livestock farm in the Mississippi Delta area of southern Missouri until becoming Chief of the Soil Conservation Service.

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin (B.S., 1953). Mr. Myers is married, has five children, and resides in Annandale, VA. He was born January 4, 1931, in Racine, WI.