Nomination of Arlene Triplett To Be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce

The President announced today his intention to nominate Arlene Triplett to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Administration).

Mrs. Triplett has served as director of administrative services with the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C., since 1977. From 1976 to 1977, she was deputy controller with the President Ford Committee, and from 1975 to 1976, she was controller with Citizens for Reagan in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Triplett was an independent financial consultant in Northern Virginia from 1973 to 1975 and was a budgets and reports analyst with Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif., from 1963 to 1966.

Arlene Triplett was born on January 21, 1942, and received a B.A. in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. She is married and has two children.