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Lawrence J. Jensen
Biography
[EPA press release - August 2, 1988]
Attached for your interest is the White House press announcement today on the nomination of Lawrence Jensen to be EPA's General Counsel.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 2, 1988
The President today announced his intention to nominate Lawrence J. Jensen to be an Assistant Administrator (General Counsel) of the Environmental Protection Agency. He would succeed Francis S. Blake.
Mr. Jensen is currently Acting General Counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Administrator (Water Programs) at EPA, 1985-1988. He was an Associate Solicitor at the Department of the Interior, 1981-1985; and an Associate in Jones, Waldo, Holbrook and McDonough in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1979-1981. From 1976-1979, he was a trial attorney in the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, 1976-1979.
Mr. Jensen was graduated from the University of Utah (B.A., 1973) and BrighmanYoung University (J.D., 1976). He was born January 17, 1950, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is married, has three children, and resides in Woodbridge, Virginia.