Administrative Conference of the United States Nomination of Reuben B. Robertson III To Be Chairman.

The President today announced that he will nominate Reuben B. Robertson III, of Washington, D.C., to be Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States. He would replace Robert A. Anthony, resigned.

Robertson is currently Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Civil Aeronautics Board.

He was born September 24, 1939, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1961 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1964. He took postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics in 1964-65.

Robertson is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law, and he is vice-chairman of the ABA Aviation and Space Law Committee. He served as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board Advisory Committee on Procedural Reform in 1975 and as a member of U.S. delegations in bilateral civil aviation negotiations in 1977-78.

From 1966 to 1968, he was associated with the law firm of Covington & Burling. He was a special assistant to the Chief Counsel of the Federal Highway Administration from 1968 to 1969. From 1969 to 1973, he was with the Center for the Study of Responsive Law, and from 1971 to 1978, he was legal director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project. From 1973 to 1978, he was senior attorney in the Public Citizen Litigation Group. In 1978 he was a consultant to the Office of Rail Public Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He became Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in 1978.