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Office of Management and Budget Nomination of Karen Hastie Williams To Be Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy.

February 22, 1980

The President today announced that he will nominate Karen Hastie Williams, of Washington, D.C., to be Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget. She would replace Lester Fettig, resigned. Williams has been chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget since 1977.

She was born September 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C. She received a B.A. from Bates College, in 1966, an M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1967, and a J.D. from Columbus Law School at Catholic University in 1973.

From 1973 to 1974, Williams was law clerk to Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1974 to 1975, she was law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1975 to 1977, she was an associate attorney with the Washington firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman.

Williams is on the board of directors of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and serves on the Hearing Committee of the Board on Professional Responsibility, D.C. Court of Appeals. She is a member of the National Association of Black Women Attorneys.

Jimmy Carter, Office of Management and Budget Nomination of Karen Hastie Williams To Be Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250347

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