Nomination of Sydney Olson To Be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services

The President today announced his intention to nominate Sydney Olson to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Human Development Services). She would succeed Dorcas R. Hardy.

Since 1986 Miss Olson has been government relations representative for Dow, Lohnes and Albertson in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she was a majority staff member for income security, U.S. Senate

Finance Committee, 1981-1986; and special assistant for the House Ways and Means Committee, 1979-1981. From 1977 to 1979, Miss Olson was a minority staff assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

Miss Olson graduated from the University of Oregon (B.S., 1969). Miss Olson was born August 14, 1947, in Long Beach, CA, and currently resides in Alexandria, VA.