Nomination of Thomas T. Demery To Be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

The President today announced his intention to nominate Thomas T. Demery to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner). He would succeed Maurice Lee Barksdale.

Since 1982 Mr. Demery has been serving as a consultant to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for technical analyses and reviews of selected HUD multifamily mortgages. He is currently the president of Income Property Services, Inc., a real estate brokerage firm in Birmingham, MI. Previously, he was a real estate and mortgage broker specializing in apartment sales, 1978-1981; chief operating officer of Bloomfield Management Co., 1972-1978; and a licensed residential builder, 1970-1972.

Mr. Demery is married, has two children, and resides in Birmingham, MI. He was born July 18, 1949, in Detroit, MI.