Nomination of Elsie V. Vartanian To Be Director of the Women's Bureau

The President today announced his intention to nominate Elsie V. Vartanian, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor. She would succeed Jill Houghton Emery.

Mrs. Vartanian currently serves as founder and president of Elsie V. Vartanian, Inc., in Salem, NH. In addition she has been a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1979 to the present, serving as assistant majority leader from 1987 to 1988. She was born July 19, 1930, in Haverhill, MA. Mrs. Vartanian is married, has one child, and resides in Salem, NH.