For Immediate Release  
 Contact: Art Resnick
                                               FY-98-6  
                                               Date: February 23, 1998 

   

                        ATF Names Deputy Assistant
                     Director for Alcohol and Tobacco

   

 WASHINGTON--The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently named Donald
 C. MacVean as the new Deputy Assistant Director of Alcohol and Tobacco.  Mr. MacVean
 moves on from Deputy Assistant Director of Liaison and Public Information. 

 In his new capacity, he will be responsible for assisting in formulating and overseeing policies
 regarding the enforcement of alcohol and tobacco laws under ATF’s jurisdiction. 

 Mr. MacVean joined ATF in 1968 as an inspector in Baltimore, and later served in Bureau
 Headquarters as a management examiner.  When the Bureau reorganized in 1972, he served as the
 first Chief of the Regulatory Enforcement Training Branch.  In 1976, Mr. MacVean returned to the
 field, first serving as the Assistant Chief, Field Operations in Philadelphia, and then as Chief, Field
 Operations in Chicago.  In 1978 he was selected Regional Director (Compliance Operations) for
 the North Atlantic Region.  He was transferred to Bureau Headquarters in 1989 as Chief, Revenue
 Program Division, and was selected as Deputy Associate Director, Compliance Operations in
 February 1990.  From March 1995 to October 1996, he was Deputy Associate Director,
 Regulatory Enforcement Field Operations. 

 A Washington, DC, native, Mr. MacVean graduated from the University of Maryland in 1968 with
 a bachelor’s degree in government and politics.  He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1960 to
 1963.  He and his wife have two grown children and reside in Maryland. 
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