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John C. White
Biography
[EPA press release - August 5, 1977]
The Environmental Protection Agency has rounded out its group of 10 Regional Administrators under the Carter Administration by appointing three new directors in Philadelphia, Dallas and Denver and by transferring the current Dallas Regional Administrator to the Agency's office in Atlanta.
EPA Administrator Costle said that Jack J. Schramm will become Regional Administrator in Philadelphia, Adlene Harrison will head the Dallas office, and the Denver Regional Administrator will be Alan Merson.
John C. White, the current Dallas Regional Administrator, will become the regional head for EPA in Atlanta.
The other six EPA Regional Administrators are:
Boston--William R. Adams
New York--Eckardt C. Beck
Chicago--George R. Alexander, Jr.
San Francisco--Paul DeFalco, Jr.
Seattle--Donald P. DuBois
The Regional Administrators are charged with directing EPA's anti-pollution efforts in multi-state areas. The Philadelphia region consists of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The Dallas region is comprised of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The Denver region is made up of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The Atlanta region consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Brief biographies of the four new regional heads follow:
White--47 years old, a native of Blackshear, Georgia. He has been EPA's Regional Administrator in Dallas since 1975. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Regional Administrator of the Agency's Atlanta office and earlier the enforcement chief there. He has been with EPA or its predecessor agencies since 1966. Before this, he served at different times as an engineer with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the private engineering firms of Brown Engineering Co. in Huntsville, Alabama, and Palmer and Baker Engineers, Inc. in Mobile. White has a civil engineering degree from the University of Alabama and a law degree from Emory University.
Schramm replaces Daniel J. Snyder III in Philadelphia. Harrison succeeds John C. White in Dallas, who replaces Jack E. Ravan in Atlanta. Merson succeeds John A. Green in Denver.