Three Secretaries Named in Reagan Cabinet Shuffle : Hodel to Take Over at Interior

President Reagan, in the latest shuffling of his Administration, today named Energy Secretary Donald P. Hodel to head the Interior Department and White House personnel director John S. Herrington to replace Hodel.

Also, William Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is replacing Terell H. Bell as education secretary. Bell was the first member of Reagan’s Cabinet to resign after the President’s landslide reelection.

Hodel, if confirmed by the Senate, will replace Reagan’s long-time aide and confidant, William P. Clark, who has announced plans to give up an 18-year career in public life and return to California.

Herrington, a specialist in personnel and organization, was picked to oversee the merger of various Energy Department functions into Interior and the dissolution of the Cabinet-level agency, which Reagan plans as part of a long-range reorganization.

Deputy to Baker

Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, in making the announcement, also said Reagan aide Richard G. Darman will follow White House chief of staff James A. Baker III to the Treasury Department to become deputy to Baker, who earlier this week was nominated as Treasury secretary.

Darman was named to replace Deputy Treasury Secretary R. T. McNamar. McNamar’s resignation had not been announced.

Today’s announcements--the latest installment in a startling shake-up in the Administration--left the President with at least two major personnel moves to come.

Reagan must name an arms negotiator for the talks due to resume in the next several weeks with the Soviet Union and pick a successor to U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick.

Max Kampelman, a Washington lawyer, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the arms talks post, but Secretary of State George P. Shultz told reporters that Reagan has made no decision.

Kirkpatrick has said she plans to leave her Cabinet-level post. She and Reagan have agreed to discuss her future in the Administration.

White House deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver has announced plans to leave the government, and White House Counselor Edwin Meese III has been nominated as attorney general. Those two, plus Baker and Clark, were Reagan’s closest aides during his first term.

Reagan announced earlier this week that Baker would become Treasury secretary in a job swap with Donald T. Regan, who will become White House chief of staff.

Reorganization Reports

Before today’s Cabinet session, which preceded the announcements, Speakes said Reagan would receive reports on possible reorganization plans for the Education, Energy, Commerce and Interior departments.

The session was intended to thrash out ideas for long-range study, “figure out the functions” of the various departments and look at where they might be placed in any reorganization plan, he added.

Speakes said some elements of the reorganization plan might be mentioned in the President’s State of the Union address, set for Feb. 6.

Even though the President’s goal is to abolish the Energy and Education departments, Speakes said, Reagan will continue to fill the top posts as long as the agencies exist.

Reagan pledged in the 1980 campaign to abolish the Education and Energy departments, but the idea died after Congress objected that the maneuver would bring about no budget savings.