Agency for International Development Nomination of Genta A. Hawkins To Be an Assistant Administrator.

The President today announced that he will nominate Genta A. Hawkins, of Huntington Park, Calif., to be an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID). She would replace Jean P. Lewis, and her area of responsibility would be legislative affairs.

Hawkins has been legislative management officer for foreign aid in the Office of Congressional Relations at the State Department since 1978.

She was born September 3, 1940, in Anadarko, Okla. She received a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1962, and took graduate studies in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1962-63.

From 1964 to 1966, Hawkins was director of AID's "Self-Help" program in Abidjan, and from 1966 to 1968, she was liaison officer for U.S. and international voluntary agencies in the Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary for Refugee and Migration Affairs at the State Department. From 1968 to 1970, she was special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France. In 1970 she was secretary of the U.S. Delegation to the Committee of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

From 1972 to 1973, Hawkins was deputy public affairs officer at the regional Office of Economic Opportunity in New York. She took economic studies at the Foreign Service Institute and served as a loan officer in the State Department's Office of Development Finance from 1973 to 1974. From 1974 to 1977, she was chief of the economic/commercial section and AID liaison officer at the American Embassy in Nassau. From 1977 to 1978, she was a Congressional Fellow, serving as legislative assistant to Senator Gary Hart and Congressman David Obey.