Douglas M. Costle
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| Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency | |
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In office March 7, 1977 – January 20, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | John Quarles (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Steve Jellinek (Acting) |
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Douglas Michael Costle July 27, 1939 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Costle |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
Douglas Michael Costle (born July 27, 1939) was one of the architects of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he served President Jimmy Carter as EPA Administrator from 1977 to 1981.
Costle was born on July 27, 1939 in Long Beach, California, but he grew up in the Pacific Northwest. His early experiences there, including fishing, shaped his awareness of the need for environmental protections.
Costle received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1961, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1964. He became a member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and in California. Costle also served in the United States Army Reserve, working in military intelligence.
Costle is married to his wife Elizabeth and the couple have two children.
During the summer of 1963, Costle worked with the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI in Mississippi, photographing public records and interviewing witnesses in the early legal actions against the literacy tests used to disenfranchise blacks in the American South.
From 1964 to 1965, Costle was a trial attorney for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
From 1965 to 1967, he was an attorney for the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. In 1967, he was associate attorney for the law firm of Kelso, Cotton, Seligman and Ray in San Francisco, and from 1968 to 1969 was a senior associate at the San Francisco urban planning firm Marshall, Kaplan, Gans and Kahn.
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