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Kathleen M. Bennett
Biography
[EPA press release - July 2, 1981]
Kathleen M. Bennett, a long-time Washington corporate expert on environmental issues, has been nominated by President Reagan to be Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise and Radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Bennett has served for many years as a corporate representative in Washington on a broad range of issues, including international business.
Since 1977 she has been Federal Affairs representative for Crown Zellerbach Corporation, one of the nation's largest forest products companies. During this time, she was a member of the American Paper Institute Air Quality Committee, Environmental Law Committee, and other committees. She chaired that organization's subcommittee on EPA's rules for preventing air quality deterioration in clean air areas of the U.S. She played a key role in industrywide policy formulation on this important subject and many other air quality issues.
As a member of the paper industry's Government Affairs Committee, Bennett served as issue coordinator for air quality and solid waste disposal issues, and guided industrywide legislative and regulatory activities in these areas.
For several years she served as a faculty member of Executive Enterprises, Inc., an environmental law series in which she conducted seminars for industrial lawyers, engineers and public affairs representatives on the Clean Air Act and Congressional environmental policymaking.
"EPA is extremely fortunate in getting the expert services of a person so thoroughly knowledgeable about the nation's air pollution problems," said Anne M. Gorsuch, EPA Administrator. "Mrs. Bennett's background and talents make her just the right person for the job."
Bennett previously served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the American Paper Institute, where she worked with Congress on major legislation.
She also worked in the Chicago office of former Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie, and in the Congressional Liaison Office of the U.S. General Services Administration. In addition she was Washington representative for Public Affairs Analysts, Inc., a national and international public affairs consulting firm.
Bennett was born May 11, 1948 in New York, New York.
She holds a BA in Philosophy from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and lives with her husband and three children in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Virginia.