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Digitized from Box 22 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 27, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate William L. Fisher,
of Austin, Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Interior. His area of
responsibility will be Energy and Mineral Resources. He will succeed
Jack Carlson who resigned effective January 15, 1976. Mr. Fisher has
been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior for Energy and Mineral
Resources since April 1975.
Mr. Fisher was born on September 16, 1932, in Marion, Illinois, He
received his B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University in 1954. He
attended the University of Kansas and received his M.S. in 1958 and his
Ph. D. in 1961.
In 1964, Mr. Fisher became Professor of Geological Sciences at the
University of Texas at Austin, teaching geologic aspects of energy and
mineral exploration. From 1970 to 1975, he was State Geologist of Texas
and Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology for the Texas State Geo-
logical Survey.
Mr. Fisher is married and has three children. They reside in Reston,
Virginia.
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