Constance Joan Horner | |
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Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights | |
In office January 1993 – 1998 |
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Preceded by | Esther Buckley |
Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management | |
In office August 22, 1985 – May 10, 1989 |
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Preceded by | Loretta Cornelius (acting) |
Succeeded by | Constance Berry Newman |
Personal details | |
Born |
Summit, Union County New Jersey, USA |
February 24, 1942
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Charles Edward Horner |
Children |
Two sons |
Residence | Lexington, Virginia |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Occupation | Government official in the Ronald W. Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush administrations |
Two sons
Constance Joan Horner (born February 24, 1942) is a scholar, foundation trustee, and businesswoman who served in various appointed capacities in the administrations of U.S. Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush.
A native of Summit in Union County in northern New Jersey, Horner (maiden name missing) holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English literature, which she received in 1964 and 1967, respectively, from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and the University of Chicago.
Her husband, Charles Horner, served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and as Associate Director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Reagan administration and is a historian of China. The Horners have two married sons and four grandchildren. After long-term residence in Washington, D.C., they have relocated to Lexington, Virginia. Horner is a former faculty member at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Center for the Study of American Government at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.