Federal Labor Relations Authority Nomination of Leon B. Applewhaite To Be a Member.

The President today announced that he will nominate Leon B. Applewhaite, of New York City, to be a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. This is a new position.

Applewhaite is currently an assistant professor at the State University of New York.

He was born September 4, 1927, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a B.A. degree from New York University, a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School, and an LL.M. degree from Brooklyn Graduate Law School. He served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to 1954.

From 1955 to 1959, he served as a claims authorizer for the U.S. Social Security Administration, and from 1959 to 1963, he was legal secretary to Justice Francis E. Rivers. He served as a member of the New York State Commission for Human Rights in 1963 and 1964, and from 1964 to 1967, he was a labor arbitrator and mediator for the New York State Board of Mediation.

From 1968 to 1979, he served as chief regional mediator for the New York State Public Employment Relations Board. During that time he also served as an arbitrator for the public and private sectors in a number of national labor cases.

From 1971 to the present, he has served as a part-time adjunct professor at Cornell University I.LR. School and Labor College of the State University of New York, Hofstra University, and Pace University. He became assistant professor of the State University of New York at Farmingdale earlier this year.

Applewhaite is a member of the American Arbitration Association, the New Jersey State Board of Mediation, the New York County Lawyers Association, the Harlem Lawyers Association, and the Industrial Relations Research Association.