Nomination of Judith T. Connor To Be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation

The President announced today his intention to nominate Judith T. Connor to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation (Policy and International Affairs).

Miss Connor has been director of international affairs with Pan American World Airways since 1977 and was formerly with the Department of Transportation from 1973 to 1977 as an Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Consumer Affairs (October 1975 to January 1977). She was Acting Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation, from July 1975 to October 1975 and Special Assistant to the Administrator from May 1973 to June 1975. She has held the following positions in the Department of Commerce: Director, Public Policy Analysis Division, Domestic Commerce, from October 1971 to May 1973; policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Commerce from July 1971 to October 1971; policy adviser, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity from February 1971 to July 1971.

Miss Connor was with Excalibur Associates from August 1969 to December 1970, Trans World Airlines from March 1968 to May 1969, and Pacific Telephone Co. from 1965 to 1968. She received a B.A. in English from Wellesley in 1961 and a M.B.A. in marketing from Columbia in 1965. Miss Connor is 42 years old and resides in New York City. She was born in Toronto, Canada, on March 6, 1939.