    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [March 22, 1991]
    [Pages 298-299]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of John T. Sanders To Be Chief Financial Officer and Deputy
    Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation at the Department of
    Education
    March 22, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Dr. John
    Theodore Sanders, of Illinois, to be Chief Financial Officer and Deputy
    Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation. He would succeed
    Charles Edward Mealey Kolb. The President indicated that he will ask the
    Congress to combine those roles into one position with the title of
    Under Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of
    Education.
        Dr. Sanders, a Texas native, was nominated by President Bush as
    Under Secretary of Education on March 10, 1989, and was confirmed by the
    Senate on April 19, 1989. He became Deputy Secretary on November 5,
    1990, when President Bush signed legislation elevating his position to
    that level.
        An activist in education, Dr. Sanders formerly served as
    president of the Council of

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    Chief State School Officers. He served as Nevada's superintendent of
    public instruction and before coming to the Department of Education in
    1989, as State superintendent of education in Illinois.
        Dr. Sanders graduated from Wayland Baptist University (B.S., 1964);
    Washington State University (M.A.T., 1970); and from the University of
    Nevada, Reno, (Ed.D., 1987). He is married, has four children, two
    grandchildren, and resides in Springfield, IL.