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Jack E. Ravan
Biography
[EPA press release - September 1, 1971]
The appointment of three Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrators was announced today by William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA Administrator.
They are:
Gerald M. Hansler, 38, Summit, New Jersey, Administrator for Region 2, with headquarters in New York City.
John A. Green, 53, Springfield, Virginia, Administrator for Region 8, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
Jack E. Ravan, 34, Fairfax, Virginia, Administrator for Region 4, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ruckelshaus said that Hansler, who has been serving as Acting EPA Regional Administrator in region 2, has succeeded in effectively launching EPA programs in this region and has established good relationships with State and local groups.
The EPA Administrator said that Green, Management Assistant to the EPA Assistant Administrator for Categorical Programs, has shown great managerial ability and predicted that Ravan will prove to be a strong and vigorous leader in Region 4.
Ravan is a Special Assistant to the Federal Co-chairman of the Coastal Plains Regional Commission, who sits as the Federal representative on the Commission for the Economic Development of a three-State region (North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia).
A former Administrative Assistant to Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Ravan served as Director of the Division of Program Services for the South Carolina Committee for Technical Education.
He is a former technical manager for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. From June, 1959, to March, 1967, Ravan served in the United States Army, where he advanced from second lieutenant to captain.
Ravan, who was a pilot, served in both command and staff assignments in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ravan and his wife, Roberta, have three children.
He will be responsible for EPA programs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The three new appointments bring to six the number of EPA Regional Administrators announced so far. The other Regional Administrators previously named are Francis T. Mayo, Region 5, with headquarters in Chicago; John McGlennon, Region 1, with headquarters in Boston; and Jerome H. Svore, Region 7, with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.
EPA has 10 regional offices. Selection of the Administrators for the other four regions will be completed shortly.