Nomination of Susan E. Phillips To Be a Member of the Federal Trade Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Susan E. Phillips to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission for the term of 7 years from September 26, 1987. She would succeed Patricia Price Bailey.

Since 1985 Ms. Phillips has been Associate Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel at the White House in Washington, DC. Prior to this she was Director of the Institute of Museum Services, 1983-1985. Ms. Phillips was Director of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs at the United States Department of Education, 1982-1983; and director of research and publications at the Conservative Caucus, Inc., and the Conservative Caucus Research, Analysis, and Education Foundation, Inc., 1976-1982.

Ms. Phillips graduated from the University of Massachusetts (B.A., 1967) and Virginia Polytechnic University (M.B.A., 1985). She was born June 23, 1945, in Cambridge, MA, and resides in Arlington, VA.