New NRC Commissioner

[Todd Jackson <TJJ@nrc.gov>]

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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20555
Phone 301-415-8200   Fax 301-415-2234
Internet:opa@nrc.gov

No. 96-25							FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Friday, February 2, 1996)

COMMISSIONER GRETA DICUS TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE ON FEBRUARY 15

	Greta Joy Dicus will formally begin her duties as a Commissioner of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission on Feb. 15. Chairman Shirley Ann Jackson will administer the oath of
office in a small private ceremony at the NRC.
	Ms. Dicus, whose term of office will run until June 30, 1998, will become the third
Commissioner on the panel, thus reconstituting a quorum along with Chairman Jackson and
Commissioner Kenneth Rogers. There remain two vacancies on the five-person Commission.
	Before being nominated to the NRC by President Clinton, Ms. Dicus had served more
than nine years as Director of the Division of Radiation Control and Emergency Management
of the Arkansas Department of Health. In that post, she also was Arkansas liaison officer with
the NRC and Arkansas Commissioner on the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Commission. She also has served as a Director of the U.S. Enrichment Corp.
	Ms. Dicus earned a bachelor's degree from Texas Woman's University and a master's
degree in radiation biology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.