May 3, 1983
The President today announced his intention to appoint Claudine B. Cox to be Alternate
Representative of the United States of America on the Executive Board of the United Nations
Children's Fund. She would succeed Rita di Martino.
Since 1967 Dr. Cox has been a portfolio manager and financial consultant for several family
corporations and trust funds. In 1967 - 1977 she was first a part-time instructor and began
teaching full-time in 1975. She was associate professor of economics, Southwest Missouri State
University, Springfield, Mo., in 1977 - 1979. She has been a special lecturer in economics at
Drury College in Springfield since 1980.
Her other activities have included serving as a member of the executive committee of the Missouri
Council on Economic Education, and Missouri representative to the joint council meeting in New
York; member of the board of directors of William Woods College; member of the board of
directors and past chairman of the State Committee for the National Endowment for the
Humanities; and member of the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Middle America.
She graduated from Drury College (B.A., 1963; M.B.A., 1965) and the University of Missouri
(Ph. D., 1974). She is married, has one son, and resides in Springfield, Mo. She was born March
9, 1924, in Kampsville, Ill.