[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[June 8, 1992]
[Page 911]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Mary Jo Jacobi To Be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce

June 8, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Mary Jo 
Jacobi, of Mississippi, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. She would succeed Craig R. 
Helsing.
    Since 1990, Ms. Jacobi has served as senior vice president at Group 
Public Affairs USA for the HSBC Group and all its U.S. operations, 
including Marine Midland Bank in New York, NY. Since 1985, she has 
served in several capacities with Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc., in New 
York: senior vice president, 1990; member of the Board of Directors, 
1989-90; first vice president, 1987-89; and corporate vice president, 
1985-86. Ms. Jacobi has also served at the White House as Special 
Assistant to the President for Business Liaison, 1983-85, and as a 
member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, 
1986-88. She has also served at the Department of Commerce as Director 
of the Office of Business Liaison, 1982-83, and as executive assistant 
to the Associate Deputy Secretary, 1981-82.
    Ms. Jacobi graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans (B.B.A., 
1973) and from George Washington University (M.B.A., 1976). She was born 
December 7, 1951, in Bay St. Louis, MS. Ms. Jacobi currently resides in 
New York, NY.