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Adlene Harrison
Biography
[EPA press release - August 5, 1977]
The Environmental Protection Agency has rounded out its group of 10 Regional Administrators under the Carter Administration by appointing three new directors in Philadelphia, Dallas and Denver and by transferring the current Dallas Regional Administrator to the Agency's office in Atlanta.
EPA Administrator Costle said that Jack J. Schramm will become Regional Administrator in Philadelphia, Adlene Harrison will head the Dallas office, and the Denver Regional Administrator will be Alan Merson.
John C. White, the current Dallas Regional Administrator, will become the regional head for EPA in Atlanta.
The other six EPA Regional Administrators are:
Boston--William R. Adams
New York--Eckardt C. Beck
Chicago--George R. Alexander, Jr.
San Francisco--Paul DeFalco, Jr.
Seattle--Donald P. DuBois
The Regional Administrators are charged with directing EPA's anti-pollution efforts in multi-state areas. The Philadelphia region consists of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The Dallas region is comprised of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The Denver region is made up of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The Atlanta region consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Brief biographies of the four new regional heads follow:
Harrison--53 years old, a resident of Dallas, Texas, where she was born. She is currently a Dallas city councilwoman (Democrat), a post she's held since 1973. She has served on the council's committees on community development, transportation, utilities, minority employment, and arts and beautification. Harrison has supported a stringent air pollution ordinance for Dallas, has co-sponsored an ordinance to establish a city environmental committee, has sponsored local consumer protection legislation and is a member of the National League of Cities' Steering Committee for Environmental Quality. She attended the University of Missouri.
Schramm replaces Daniel J. Snyder III in Philadelphia. Harrison succeeds John C. White in Dallas, who replaces Jack E. Ravan in Atlanta. Merson succeeds John A. Green in Denver.