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No. 96-96 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Monday, July 8, 1996)
NEW NRC INSPECTOR GENERAL BEGINS DUTIES
Hubert T. Bell Jr. has begun his duties as the new Inspector
General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mr. Bell was administered the oath of office today by NRC Chairman
Shirley Ann Jackson. Others present at the private ceremony included NRC
Commissioners Kenneth C. Rogers and Greta J. Dicus; senior NRC staff
executives; Mr. Bell's wife, Satwant; their four children, Nayoja,
Nileah, Andrew and Anthony; and his sister-in-law, Prem Kaur.
A graduate of Alabama State University and a 28-year veteran of the
Secret Service, Mr. Bell was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed
by the Senate. He succeeds David Williams, who was named last year as
Inspector General of the Social Security Administration. Leo J. Norton
Jr., who has been acting NRC Inspector General, recently retired from
Federal service.
At the time of his nomination for the NRC post, Mr. Bell was
Executive Director of Work Force Planning and Diversity Management for
the Secret Service, and earlier had been Assistant Director of the
agency's Office of Inspection.
Other Secret Service assignments included those of Assistant
Director of the Office of Protective Operations; Deputy Assistant
Director of the Office of Investigations; Agent in Charge of the Vice
Presidential Protective Division; and Agent in Charge of the Honolulu,
Hawaii, field office.
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