President Bush has selected Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., former chairman of a federal safety review panel, to be the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In a Sept. 15 announcement, the White House said that Foulke now is a partner in the Greenville, S.C., office of the law firm Jackson Lewis LLP. The firm represents corporations in labor and employment cases.
From 1990 to 1994, he was chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and also served as a panel commissioner in the following year.