Department of Justice Nomination of Maurice Rosenberg To Be an Assistant Attorney General.

The President today announced that he will nominate Maurice Rosenberg, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General. He would replace Daniel J. Meador, who has resigned.

Rosenberg is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and is currently on leave of absence to work on a research project at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, Calif.

Rosenberg was born September 3, 1919, in Oswego, N.Y. He received an A.B. from Syracuse University in 1940 and an LL.B. from Columbia School of Law in 1947. He served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1945.

From 1947 to 1949, Rosenberg was law clerk to Judge Stanley Fuld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1949 to 1953, he practiced law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, and from 1953 to 1956, he practiced with Austrian, Lance & Stewart.

Rosenberg has been a professor at Columbia School of Law since 1956. He served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General from June 1976 to January 1977.