Nomination of Timothy B. Atkeson To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Timothy B. Atkeson to be Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (International Activities). He would succeed Jennifer Joy Manson.

Mr. Atkeson is currently a partner with Steptoe and Johnson in Washington, DC. From 1975 to the present, he has been in private practice. Mr. Atkeson served as General Counsel for the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President, 1970 to 1973, and General Counsel to the Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, 1974.

Mr. Atkeson graduated from Harvard College (B.A., 1947); Oxford University (B.A., 1949; M.A., 1954); and Yale Law School (LL.B., 1952; J.D., 1951). He was born April 18, 1927, and resides in Washington, DC.