Appointment of Richard B. Lauber as a United States Commissioner of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission

The President today announced his intention to appoint Richard B. Lauber to be a Commissioner of the United States section of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission for a term expiring June 4, 1992. This is a reappointment.

Since 1969 Mr. Lauber has been vice president and Alaska manager of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association in Juneau, AK. Prior to this he was a District Court Judge for the State of Alaska, 1959-1967.

Mr. Lauber graduated from Southwestern University School of Law (LL.B., 1957). He was born March 6, 1928, in Holtville, CA. He served in the U.S. Navy, 1944-1945. Mr. Lauber is married, has two children, and resides in Juneau, AK.