Department of Education Nomination of Elizabeth S. Carpenter To Be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.

The President today announced that he will nominate Elizabeth S. Carpenter, of Austin, Tex, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Public Affairs, a new position. Carpenter is director of ERA-America and is currently working at the Education Department on a consultant basis.

She was born September 1, 1920, in Salad,, Tex. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas in 1942.

From 1944 to 1945, Carpenter was a reporter for United Press in Philadelphia. From 1945 to 1961, she was an owner and writer for Carpenter News Service, a Washington news bureau representing national newspapers.

Carpenter was executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1963 and staff director and press secretary to Mrs. Johnson from 1963 to 1969. From 1972 to 1975, she was vice president of Hill & Knowlton public relations. From 1976 to 1979, she was a consultant to the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation.

Carpenter is a member of the national board of the National Women's Political Caucus and a former president of the Women's National Press Association. 1957 to 1975. He served as Deputy Chief of Legislative Reference, Program and Budget Analyst, Assistant Chief of the International Division, Deputy Assistant Director for Legislative Reference, and finally Deputy Associate Director for Human Resources.

From 1975 to 1977, Fischer was Associate Director for Human Resources and Community Development at the Congressional Budget Office. In 1977 he served as Associate Administrator for Policy and Programs at the Federal Energy Administration, and in 1977 and 1978 he was Deputy Administrator of the Energy Information Administration at the Energy Department.

Fischer was a member of the U.S. delegation to the 1969 NATO Conference on Planning, Programming and Budgeting, and was a senior member of the Department of Energy Activation Task Force in 1977.