12 Facts About Margita White

Margita White was the first female Communications Director serving under President Ford from August 15,1975 to July 12,1976.

Margita White was later commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission and the president of a lobbying group for new television technologies.

Margita White was a founding member of Executive Women in Government.

Margita White immigrated to the US with her family in 1948 at the age of ten.

Margita White started as an economics major, but changed to a government major after spending a semester in Washington, DC Margita White graduated magna sum laude in 1959.

Margita White continued her studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Margita White worked in both Nixon's 1960 presidential run and Goldwater's 1964 run.

Briefly, between the two campaigns, White lived in Hawaii to marry her husband, Stuart C White who was stationed there with the Navy.

Margita White was invited to work as the Assistant Director for Public Information at the US Information Agency in 1973.

Margita White worked there for two years until she was appointed as the Assistant Press Secretary under Ford in 1975.

Margita White was assigned to the position with the understanding that she would take over the Communications Office in six months, which she did and became the first female Communications Director in 1975.

In 1976, Margita White was appointed to a two-year term on the Federal Communications Commission.