Appointment of Robert L. Woodson as a Member of the National Commission on Children

The President today announced his intention to appoint Robert L. Woodson to be a member of the National Commission on Children for a term expiring March 31, 1989. This is a new position.

Since 1981 Mr. Woodson has been president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he was director of the American Enterprise Institute's Neighborhood Revitalization Project, 1977-1981, and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 1977. He was a fellow for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977-1978. He was director of the administration of justice division at the National Urban League, 1972-1977; director of U.S. programs for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 1969-1972; and executive director for the Media Fellowship House, 1967-1969. Mr. Woodson was also a psychiatric social worker for the Chester County Mental Health Center in Pennsylvania, 1965-1967.

Mr. Woodson graduated from Cheyney State University (B.S., 1962) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.S., 1965). He was born April 8, 1937, in Philadelphia, PA. He served in the U.S. Air Force, 1954-1958. He is married, has four children, and resides in Silver Spring, MD.