Counsel to the President Appointment of Lloyd N. Cutler.

The President today announced the appointment of Lloyd N. Cutler as Counsel to the President.

Cutler is a member of the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He has served as counsel to the President on ratification of the SALT II treaty since earlier this year, and was the President's special representative for maritime resource and boundary negotiations with Canada from 1977 to 1979.

He was born November 10, 1917, in New York City. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1936 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1939. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945.

Cutler was a partner in the law firm of Cox, Langford, Stoddard & Cutler from 1946 until 1962, when he joined his current firm.

Cutler is a member of the executive committee of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, and is a director of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund. He was Special Counsel to the President's Committee on Urban Housing from 1967 to 1968. In 1968 and 1969, he was executive director of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and he was chairman of the District of Columbia Committee on the Administration of Justice under Emergency Conditions.