Federal Labor Relations Authority Nomination of H. Stephan Gordon To Be General Counsel.

The President today announced that he will nominate H. Stephan Gordon, of Kensington, Md., to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a 5-year term.

Gordon is Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Department of Labor and also serves as Chairman of the Labor Department's Board of Contract Appeals, Chairman of the National Review Panel, and a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Gordon was born December 4, 1922, in Vienna, Austria. He received an A.B. from Indiana University in 1946 and a J.D. from the George Washington University in 1949. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945.

From 1949 to 1958, Gordon was employed by the National Labor Relations Board in various capacities, including trial attorney, chief law officer in the Atlanta regional office, director of appeals, and special assistant to the General Counsel.

From 1959 to 1961, he served as Assistant General Counsel of the NLRB in charge of the General Counsel's Legal Policy Branch. From 1961 to 1971, he was Associate General Counsel in charge of the Board's field operation. He has been Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Labor Department since 1971.