Promotion of Jose A. Zuni, an Indian career employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to the position of superintendent of the Consolidated Ute Agency, Ignacio, Colorado, was reported today by the Department of the Interior.
Born on the Isleta Pueblo near Albuquerque in 1921, Zuni graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in business administration in 1949 and joined the Bureau as a budget analyst in Albuquerque the same year. In 1954 he was promoted to administrative assistant at Albuquerque and two years later was transferred to the Area Office at Gallup in a similar position. In 1958 he returned to Albuquerque as tribal relations officer and a year later was promoted to his most recent position as assistant to the General Superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency. He served in the Air Force during World War II.
At Ignacio, Zuni succeeds James F. Canan, who has been superintendent there since 1956 and is transferring to the office at Gallup as assistant area director.
