Appointment of William Offutt Doub as United States Representative to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board

The President today announced his intention to appoint William Offutt Doub to be Representative of the United States to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board. He will succeed Sterling Cole.

Mr. Doub is a principal in the law firm of Doub and Muntzing, which he formed in 1977. Previously he was a partner in the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae. He was a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1971-1974. He served as a member of the Executive Advisory Committee to the Federal Power Commission in 1968-1971 and was appointed by the President of the United States to the President's Air Quality Advisory Board in 1970.

He is a member of the American Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association, and Federal Bar Association. He is immediate past Chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the World Energy Conference and a member of the Atomic Industrial Forum. He currently serves as a member of the nuclear export policy committees of both the Atomic Industrial Forum and the American Nuclear Energy Council.

Mr. Doub graduated from Washington and Jefferson College (B.A., 1953) and the University of Maryland School of Law in 1956. He is married, has two children, and resides in Potomac, Md. He was born September 3, 1931, in Cumberland, Md.