Kathleen Q. Camin

Biography
[EPA press release - June 13, 1977]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Douglas M. Costle today announced the appointment of Kathleen Quinn Camin as head of EPA's Region VII Office in Kansas City, Missouri, and William R. Adams, Jr. as Direction of the Agency's Region I Office in Boston.

Camin, 42, is currently Associate Dean, College of Business Administration, Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. In her new post, Camin will implement EPA programs in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.

Camin was born February 14, 1935, in Kimball, Nebraska, and attended high school in Casper, Wyoming. She received a B.A. in Government from Smith College, 1957, and took graduate courses in social sciences at the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Holland (1959), and did graduate work in economics at the University of New Mexico (1961-1963). She also received a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Missouri in 1969.

She has done extensive research into the feasibility of strip mine reclamation in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and was workshop director for the EPA programs called "Citizen's Role in Water Quality Control." She also did the first nationwide study on the amount of pollution generated by the meatpacking industry.

As the new Region VII Director, she succeeds Jerome Svore.

Kathleen Q. Camin

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