Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson today announced the appointment of Frankie E. Paul, 40, full blood Navajo, to be superintendent Tuba City Agency, Arizona. He has been acting in that capacity since April of this year.
Paul, born and raised in Ramah, New Mexico, is a graduate of Los Angeles State College with a B.A. degree in Education Administration.
He began his Federal service in 1962 as a teacher at the Delcon Elementary School in Winslow, Arizona. In 1964 he transferred to the Fort Defiance Agency as Director of the Head Start Program later becoming an Education Specialist at that same agency. In 1967 he was Assistant Executive Director in the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity in Window Rock, Arizona and in 1968 became an Education Specialist (Adult Education) at the BIA Navajo Area Office, until the time he became acting Superintendent at Tuba City. In 1970 he completed the Departmental Management Training Program.
In announcing the appointment, the Commissioner said: "I am pleased we have a man of Paul's ability and past experience to undertake the duties as Superintendent at Tuba City."
Paul served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1961. He is married to the former Barbara Morris, also a Navajo, they have one son and two daughters.
