Shultz, Everhart to Join General Motors’ Board

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Thomas E. Everhart, president of the California Institute of Technology, have been elected directors of General Motors Corp.

Shultz returns to the GM board after an absence of nearly seven years while he was secretary of state. Everhart joins the board after nine years on the General Motors science advisory committee.

Shultz, 68, has held several other key positions in the federal government, including secretary of Treasury, secretary of labor and director of the Office of Management and Budget. He first joined the board in 1981, while serving as president of the Bechtel Group, an engineering and construction firm.

A physicist and engineer by training, Everhart, 56, has held a number of teaching posts and was chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and dean of the College of Engineering at Cornell University before becoming chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1987, he assumed his current position.

Shultz will also be a member of the finance committee of the board, and Everhart will join the public policy committee. Both directors will assume their new positions in March.