Nomination of Jack R. Stokvis To Be an Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development
June 22, 1988

The President today announced his intention to nominate Jack R. Stokvis to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Community Planning and Development). He would succeed Alfred Clinton Moran.

Since 1981 Mr. Stokvis has been General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC. Prior to this he was director of the department of planning and grants for the city of East Orange, NJ, 1980-1981. He has also been special project manager for the Great Falls National Historic District in New Jersey, 1976-1980; principal planner for the city of Paterson, 1975-1976; and a senior planner for Jersey City, 1973-1975.

Mr. Stokvis graduated from Union College (A.B., 1967) and received a master of urban planning degree from New York University in 1973. He was born December 10, 1944, in Hartford, CT. He is married, has two children, and resides in Arlington, VA.