Appointment of Juanita Donaghey Duggan as Executive Secretary of the Domestic Policy Council

October 24, 1988

The President today announced the appointment of Juanita Donaghey Duggan to be Executive Secretary of the Domestic Policy Council. She would succeed Ralph C. Bledsoe.

Mrs. Duggan, Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, has been domestic policy liaison in the Office of Public Liaison since January 1988. In June 1985 Mrs. Duggan became Assistant Director for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at ACTION. Mrs. Duggan previously served as professional staff member to Senator Jeremiah Denton on the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Subcommittee on Family and Human Services, and on the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism.

Mrs. Duggan graduated from Georgetown University (B.S., 1982). She is married and has one son. Mrs. Duggan is a native of Mobile, AL, and resides in Washington, DC.