Appointment of Don Y. Jensen to the post of superintendent of the Cherokee Indian Agency, Cherokee, North Carolina, effective August 3, was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
Jensen, superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Agency, Lame Deer, Mont., for the past six years, succeeds Darrell T. Fleming, who is transferring to the Gallup area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as assistant area director. A successor for Jensen at Lame Deer has not yet been selected.
A native of Castle Dale, Utah, Jensen joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1947 as a soil conservationist at Crow Agency in Montana, simultaneously serving the Northern Cheyenne Agency in the same capacity. In 1955 he transferred to the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, as soil conservationist and a year later was made land operations officer at the Standing Rock Agency in North Dakota.
Jensen is a graduate of Utah State College and had 4 years of service in the Army during World War II.
