Nomination of Wendy Hawley Borcherdt To Be a Deputy Under Secretary of Education

The President today announced his intention to nominate Wendy Hawley Borcherdt to be Deputy Under Secretary of Education for Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs. She would succeed John H. Rodriguez.

Mrs. Borcherdt recently served as Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison. Previously she was Associate Director of Presidential Personnel at the White House in 1981-1982; regional finance director, Reagan for President Committee, in Los Angeles, in 1979-1980; and founder, president, and owner, Training for Effective Management, a consulting firm in Los Angeles, in 1975-1981.

Mrs. Borcherdt has served as a member of the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, and was director of the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif. She was vice chairman of the board, Independent Colleges of Southern California, and was director, Western United States, Canada, and Mexico, for the Association of Junior Leagues.

She graduated from Stanford University (A.B., 1958). She is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, Calif. She was born April 12, 1936, in Oakland, Calif.