Nomination of Kenneth Y. Tomlinson To Be an Associate Director of the United States Information Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Kenneth Y. Tomlinson to be an Associate Director (Broadcasting) of the United States Information Agency. He would succeed Robert John Hughes.

Mr. Tomlinson has been serving as senior editor of Reader's Digest since 1976. He has been with Reader's Digest since 1968, serving as staff writer in 1968-1971 and as an associate editor in 1971-1976. He was a reporter for the Richmond Times Dispatch in 1965-1968.

He graduated from Randolph-Macon College (B.A., 1967). He is married, has two children, and resides in Chappaqua, N.Y. He was born August 3, 1944.