Nomination of William Louis Mills To Be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality

The President today announced his intention to nominate William Louis Mills to be a member of the Council on Environmental Quality. He would succeed W. Ernst Minor. Since 1977 Dr. Mills has been serving as associate professor of environmental and water resources engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Previously he was associate professor of environmental health sciences and engineering at North Carolina Central University in 1973-1977; research assistant and graduate student in the department of civil engineering at the University of Kansas in 1971-1973; and an instructor in the department of biology at North Carolina Central University in 1969-1971.

He graduated from Alcorn State University (B.S., 1967), Tuskegee Institute (M.S., 1969), and the University of Kansas (Ph.D., 1973). He is married, has two children, and resides in Nashville, Tenn. He was born November 20, 1944, in Mobile, Ala.