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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release October 6, 1998
                PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES KAY KELLEY ARNOLD 
                  AS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
                     OF THE INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

The President today announced his intent to nominate Kay Kelley Arnold as a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation.

Mrs. Kay Kelley Arnold, of Little Rock, Arkansas, was a member of Governor Bill Clinton's staff from 1979 to 1980, and served as a member of his cabinet in 1986 to 1987. She is currently an officer at Entergy Corporation. Over the past 20 years she has held a variety of volunteer civic and charitable offices.

She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. She holds B.A., M.A. and J.D. degrees and is a member of the Arkansas Bar.

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent agency established by federal law in 1969 to cooperate with private, regional, and international organizations in an effort to strengthen the bonds of friendship and understanding among the peoples of this hemisphere, to support self-help efforts, to stimulate and assist wider participation of the people in the development process, and to encourage the establishment and growth of private and governmental democratic institutions.

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