Nomination of J. Daniel Howard To Be an Assistant Secretary of Defense

The President has nominated J. Daniel Howard, of Tennessee, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). He would succeed Robert B. Sims.

Since 1986 Mr. Howard has been Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House in Washington, DC. Prior to this he was public affairs adviser of the Bureau for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, 1985-1986. Mr. Howard was public affairs officer for the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, 1982-1985; cultural affairs officer for the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, 1981-1982; and press attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 1977-1980. From 1975 to 1977, he was director of the American Center in Sapporo, Japan, and a language trainee in Yokohama, Japan, 1974-1975; and a Foreign Service officer trainee in Washington, DC, 1972-1973. Mr. Howard was a field representative for the American Red Cross in Denver, CO, 1968-1971.

Mr. Howard graduated from the University of Chattanooga (B.A., 1968) and the University of Tennessee (M.A., 1972). He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Japan, 1961-1965. Mr. Howard was born August 24, 1943, in Chattanooga, TN. He is married, has three children, and resides in Arlington, VA.