Nomination of Becky Norton Dunlop To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior

The President today announced his intention to nominate Becky Norton Dunlop to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife at the Department of the Interior. She would succeed William Pierce Horn.

Since 1987 Mrs. Dunlop has been Deputy Under Secretary at the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. She is also a Special Representative to Meet and to Consider in Good Faith Such Issues Affecting the Relationship between the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States, 1988. Prior to this, Mrs. Dunlop was Special Assistant to the Attorney General for Cabinet Affairs at the Department of Justice, 1985-1987. She worked at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel at the White House, 1983-1985; Special Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs, 1982-1983; and Deputy Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, 1981-1982,.

Mrs. Dunlop graduated from Miami University, Ohio (B.A., 1973). She was born October 2, 1951, in Minneapolis, MN. She is married and resides in Arlington, VA.