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Nomination of Susan Meredith Phillips To Be a Member and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

March 27, 1985

The President today announced his intention to nominate Susan Meredith Phillips to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term expiring April 13, 1990, and to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. These are reappointments.

Since November 1981 she has been serving as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She served as Acting Chairman of the Commission from May to November 1983 and has been Chairman since November 1983.

Dr. Phillips was associate vice president of finance and university services at the University of Iowa in 1979-1981. She was a Brookings economic policy fellow in 1976-1977 and an economic fellow with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1977-1978. She served as assistant professor in the department of business administration at the University of Iowa in 1974-1978 (on leave from 1976 to 1978).

She graduated from Agnes Scott College (B.A., 1967) and Louisiana State University (M.S., 1971; Ph.D., 1973). She was born December 23, 1944, in Richmond, VA, and now resides in Washington, DC.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Susan Meredith Phillips To Be a Member and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259483

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