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Digitized from Box 6 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
VIRGINIA H. KNAUER :
Biographical Data
Mrs. Virginia H. Knauer has been Special Assistant to the President since
February 5, 1973. In this position she also serves as xecutive Secretary
of the Consume. dvisory Council.
In February, 1968, she became Director of the Bureau of Consumer
Protection, the Department of Justice, of the State of Pennsylvania.
She is the only woman in the United States who actually administered
such a bureau, devoted to cansumer protection and consumer education.
She also directed the operation of five branch offices in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Erie and Scranton.
Born and educated in Philadelphia, Mrs. Knauer won a Board of
Education scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She
is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and did postgraduate
work at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.
She was the first Republican woman elected to the Philadelphia City
Council as a Councilman-at-Large in 1960.
She is married to Wilhelm F. Knauer, a Philadelphia attorney, and
they have two children.
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