Nomination of Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr., To Be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services

The President today announced his intention to nominate Thomas R. Donnelly, Jr., to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Legislation), vice William B. Welsh.

Since 1974 Mr. Donnelly has been managing partner with the Washington firm of Louis C. Kramp & Associates, government relations counselors. He was president and chairman, TRD Associates, Inc., a public affairs counseling firm, in 1972-74; executive vice president, National Center for Voluntary Action, in 1970-72; and executive vice president, the United States Jaycees, in 1967-70. Prior to that position, Mr. Donnelly was with Air Products & Chemicals (Pittsburgh, Pa.) in 1963-65 and the Johns Manville Corp. in 1961-63.

Mr. Donnelly graduated from Princeton University (B.S.E., 1961). He is married, has three children, and resides in Springfield, Va. He was born May 23, 1939, in Steubenville, Ohio.