Duane C. Moxon Named Superintendent of BIA Seminole Agency, Hollywood, FL

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For Immediate Release: June 1, 1971

Duane C. Moxon, 51, has named Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Seminole Agency, Hollywood, Florida, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce announced today. He moves to that post from & similar one at Turtle Mountain Agency, Belcourt, North Dakota, when he served for nearly two and a half years. Moxon re-places Eugene Barrett, who retired at the end of May.

The new Seminole Superintendent has a B. S. degree in Agronomy from South Dakota state college and of his 28 years of Federal service, ten were as a soil scientist with the Department of Agriculture. In 1953 he became a soil scientist with the Minneapolis Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and served in a similar post at the Klamath, Ore. Agency and the Aberdeen, S. Dak Area office, both also Bureau installations. He served as a land operations officer with the Pine Ridge, S. Dak. Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

In 1968 he was awarded a quality increase for sustained superior performance.