Media Contact: Lovett 343-7445
For Immediate Release: March 29, 1979

Zane O. Browning, a Chickasaw Indian, has been named Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency at Ardmore, Oklahoma, Interior Assistant Secretary Forrest Gerard announced today.

Browning has been Program Analysis Officer in the BlA's Muskogee Area Office.

The 43-year-old Haskell Indian School alumnus has worked for the Bureau since 1955. He studied Business and Public Administration at Oklahoma State and Oklahoma University. He also completed the Interior's Departmental Management Training Program.

Browning's first BIA job was at Sequoyah School in Oklahoma. He has since worked in various administrative positions in Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma.