-THE WHITE HOUSE: Chavez-Thompson named member of Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 July 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- President Clinton names Linda Chavez-Thompson as a member of President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:070798 The President today announced his intent to appoint Linda Chavez-Thompson as a Member of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.

Ms. Linda Chavez-Thompson, of Washington, D.C., serves as Executive Vice-President of the AFL-CIO, a position she has held since 1995. In her thirty years in the labor movement, she rose from the organizing ranks of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) to become the highest ranking woman in the labor movement and the first person...