Department of Health and Human Services Nomination of Richard B. Lowe III To Be Inspector General.

The President today announced that he will nominate Richard B. Lowe III, of New York City, to be Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. He would replace Thomas D. Morris, resigned. Lowe has been Acting Inspector General since 1979 and was Deputy Inspector General earlier in 1979.

He was born July 26, 1941, in New York City. He received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1964 and a J.D. from St. John's University in 1967.

Lowe was with the New York County district attorney's office from 1967 to 1979. He served as a trial attorney and as chief of the major felony program, the complaint bureau, the early case assessment bureau, and the trial bureau. From 1976 to 1979, he was chief of the trials division.

He has been a lecturer at Fordham, St. John's, Hofstra, and Cornell University Law Schools and also served as a faculty member for the homicide investigator's course of the New York City Police Department.