Appointment of Patricia Mayes Hines as an Assistant Secretary of Education

The President today recess-appointed Patricia Mayes Hines to be Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement for the Department of Education. She would succeed Chester Evans Finn, Jr.

Since July 1988 Mrs. Hines has been Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Development at the White House. Prior to this, she was a Senior Staff Member/Executive Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, February 1987-June 1988; Special Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education, February 1986-January 1987; and Executive Director of the National Council on Educational Research, February 1983-December 1985.

Mrs. Hines graduated from the University of South Carolina (B.A., 1970) and the University of Virginia (M.A., 1971). She was born October 15, 1948, in Mayesville, SC. She is married and resides in Alexandria, VA.