
				


			    THE WHITE HOUSE

		     Office of the Press Secretary

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For Immediate Release                                     April 15, 1994



	       PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES PATRICIA FRY GODLEY 
		AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR FOSSIL ENERGY


     President Clinton today announced his intention to nominate
Patricia Fry Godley as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy at the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE).

     As the Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Godley will provide
leadership in developing research, development and demonstration
programs for natural gas, oil and coal.  She also will provide oversight
of programs involving the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Naval
Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves.

      Ms. Godley presently serves as a Special Assistant to DOE Deputy
Secretary Bill White.  Prior to taking that position, she practiced
energy law for 14 years in Houston, Texas, and Washington, D.C..  She
served as a consultant to The World Bank drafting statutes related to
natural gas transportation and distribution in Argentina and Bolivia.
In addition, she participated in a study of Russian Federation energy
legislation for The World Bank, and was one of two reporters in the gas
and oil transportation group of the University of Houston Law Center
Russian Petroleum Legislation Project in 1992.

     An Illinois native, Ms. Godley received a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Trinity University in 1970, a Masters degree from Memphis State
University in 1973 and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas in
1979.  She is a member of the American, Texas, District of Columbia and
Federal Energy Bar Associations and the Women's Council on Energy and
the Environment.


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