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Donald Louis Evans is the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Bush and sworn into office on January 20, 2001. On November 9, 2004, the White House announced that Evans intended to resign by the end of January 2005. Evans currently serves as CEO of the Financial Services Forum, a trade association representing the CEOs of financial services firms dedicated to promoting policies that encourage an open and competitive global marketplace.
In 1975, Evans began roughnecking on an oil rig for Tom Brown Inc., a large independent energy company now based in Denver. Ten years later he took the company over as CEO and continued running it until becoming Commerce Secretary. In 1995, Evans was appointed by then-Governor Bush to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, serving as chairman of the board for the last four years. He was a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation for 8 years and a driving force behind Native Vision, a program that provides services to some 10,000 Native American children. He has been involved with the United Way for many years, serving as president in 1989 and campaign chair in 1981. He has been named Jaycees Man of the Year.
Evans worked for Governor Bush’s successful gubernatorial campaigns in 1994 and 1998, and served as Chairman of the Bush/Cheney 2000 campaign. He currently heads up the committee to determine a location for the presidential library to be built for George W. Bush upon the latter’s leaving office.
Source- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Evans
