Community Services Administration Nomination of Laird F. Harris To Be an Assistant Director.

The President today announced that he will nominate Laird F. Harris, of Ann Arbor, Mich., to be an Assistant Director of the Community Services Administration. He would replace Frank Jones, resigned. Harris has been Director of Regional Operations for the Community Services Administration since 1977.

He was born October 15, 1942, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1964 and an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1971. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1966 to 1969.

From 1973 to 1976, Harris was an administrative officer with the Washtenaw County (Mich.) Sheriff's Department. He was executive director of the Democratic National Convention in 1976 and Midwest field director for the Democratic National Committee during the 1976 campaign.

Harris joined the Community Services Administration in 1977 as Special Assistant to the Director and assumed his current position in August 1977.