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Donald P. Dubois
Biography
[EPA press release - July 2, 1976]
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Russell E. Train today announced the appointment of Donald P. Dubois, 41, as the Agency's new northwest Regional Administrator in Seattle. Dubois, a civil engineer, will assume the new post on July 3. He was the EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Denver.
EPA's Seattle office has jurisdiction over Federal environmental matters in the States of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
"Mr. Dubois is a career Public Health Service Officer with an exemplary record in public health protection and environmental improvement," Train said. "He will bring a wealth of professional experience and administrative talent to the ecological problems of the Northwest."
Dubois holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Washington State University in Pullman. He earned a maters degree in civil engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Dubois has been with EPA since the Agency's formation in December 1970. His first EPA position was Interim Regional Coordinator in Denver, charged with organizing a single environmental unit from a variety of pollution control programs scattered at more than a dozen agencies. In September 1971, he became the Deputy Regional Administrator for EPA in Denver.
Prior to joining EPA, Dubois held a number of engineering and management posts with the U.S. Public Health Service beginning in 1957. His last Public Health Service job, before joining EPA, was Regional Assistant Administrator in Denver.
Dubois was born in Spokane, Washington. He is a member of several professional engineering organizations and four times has been awarded outstanding service medals from the Federal government. He is married to the former Glenice R. Collins. They have two children.
Dubois succeeds Clifford V. Smith who resigned in May to join the Bechtel Corporation.