The President today announced his intention to appoint Carl A. Anderson to be a member of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission. He would succeed Charles D. Ferris.
Mr. Anderson is Counselor to the Under Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was legislative assistant to Senator Jesse Helms in 1976-81. He is president of the American Family Institute, a nonpartisan, tax-exempt, independent research and educational organization supporting studies and publications concerning the impact of public policy upon the family and its role in a free society. Mr. Anderson is also a practicing attorney in the State of Washington and the District of Columbia.
He graduated from Seattle University (B.A., 1972) and the University of Denver, College of Law (J.D., 1975). He is married, has three children, and resides in Arlington, Va. He was born February 27, 1951, in Torrington, Conn.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Carl A. Anderson as a Member of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246365