WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush has selected a replacement for his counsel Harriet Miers, who tendered her resignation last week, U.S. media reported Monday.

    The White House is expected to announce the selection of Fred Fielding, who worked as the legal counsel to former president Donald Reagan between 1981 and 1986, on Tuesday.

    Miers tendered her resignation last Thursday as the White House counsel, which would take effective on Jan. 31, and Bush "regretfully" accepted her resignation, White House spokesman Tony Snow said last week.

    Born in Texas in 1945, Miers worked as a staff secretary at the White House from 2001 to 2003, and as the deputy chief of staff between 2003 and 2004. She became Bush's counsel in February 2005.

    In October 2005, Bush nominated her for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The nomination, however, was met with opposition from conservative groups and the president withdrew her nomination later that month.

    Fielding, born in March 1939, served as associate counsel for former president Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1972, and worked as a member of the Sept. 11 commission that investigated the terrorist attacks in 2001.