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Commissioner Franklin Names Ms. Bryan Special Assistant

Release Date: January 05, 1975

Trudy Bryan has been named Special Assistant to Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Barbara Hackman Franklin.

Ms. Bryan previously worked for The Council for Exceptional Children, an organization of 50,000 educators and others who work with handicapped and gifted children.

Prior to employment at the Council, she served as an aide to U.S. Senator Bob Dole of Kansas and also served in a senior management capacity at the Missouri-Kansas division of the R. H. Macy Co, Kansas City, Mo.

Ms. Bryan, 32, is a native of Abilene, Kansas. She earned a Bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission was created by Congress in October, 1972 and activated on May 14, 1973. It has the authority to issue and enforce mandatory safety standards for more than 10,000 consumer products used by American families and can ban hazardous products from the marketplace. The Commission was specifically charged by Congress to reduce unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products.

Release Number
75-003

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