[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.