Nomination of Shirley Dennis To Be Director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor

The President today announced his intention to nominate Shirley Dennis to be Director of the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor. She would succeed Lenora Cole-Alexander.

Since 1980 Mrs. Dennis has been secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs in Harrisburg. She was acting secretary from October 1979 to April 1980 as well as executive deputy secretary from July 1979 to October 1979. Previously, she was managing director, Housing Association of Delaware Valley, 1971-1979; housing director, Urban League of Philadelphia, 1969-1971; and equal opportunity specialist, Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia, 1967-1968.

Mrs. Dennis is married, has three children, and resides in Willow Grove, PA. She graduated from Temple University (A.S., 1985), and she was born February 26, 1938, in Omaha, NE.