Nomination of Jacqueline Knox Brown To Be an Assistant Secretary of Energy

The President today announced his intention to nominate Jacqueline Knox Brown to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs). She would succeed C. Anson Franklin.

Mrs. Brown most recently served as a senior policy analyst with the Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries in Washington, DC. Prior to this she was a senior policy analyst for the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, 1987 - 1988. Mrs. Brown has also served as staff director for the Minority Subcommittee on Aging, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, of the United States Senate, 1986 - 1987; and a legislative assistant to the Honorable Thad Cochran (R - MS), 1979 - 1986.

Mrs. Brown graduated from Howard University (B.A., 1983). She was born November 20, 1952, in Washington, DC. She is married and has one daughter.