Designation of Julian Joseph Vigneault III as United States Commissioner of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Arkansas River Compact Commission

The President today announced his intention to designate Julian Joseph Vigneault III as United States Commissioner on the Arkansas-Oklahoma Arkansas River Compact Commission. He would succeed Sharon L. Shipley.

Since 1986 Mr. Vigneault has been president of the Vigneault Co. in Little Rock, AR. Previously he was a field man for Southern States at the National Republican Congressional Committee in Washington, DC, 1985-1986.

Mr. Vigneault attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He was born March 28, 1954, in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany. He is married, has one child, and resides in Little Rock.