Transfer of Llewellyn Kingsley, superintendent of the Winnebago Indian Agency in Nebraska for the past three years, to the comparable position at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, effective September 15, was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
At Pine Ridge, Kingsley replaces Leslie P. Towle, who was recently appointed area director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Anadarko, Oklahoma successor at the Winnebago Agency has not yet been selected.
The new Pine Ridge superintendent first came with the Bureau in 1936 as an assistant clerk at the Navajo Agency, Window Rock, Arizona. Two years later he moved to the Hopi Agency, Keams Canyon, Arizona, as foreman of water development. After 13 years in this post, he was named chief clerk of the Hopi Agency in 1951 and was then promoted to administrative officer of the same agency in 1953. Three years later, he transferred as administrative officer to the San Carlos Agency, San Carlos, Arizona, and in 1958 moved to the same position at the Uintah-Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was appointed superintendent at Winnebago in 1960.
Before joining the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he was associated for nine years with an oil company in Oklahoma. He was born at Canton, Oklahoma, in 1904 and attended the University of Colorado from 1923 to 1926.
