The President today announced that he will nominate Alice Daniel, of Washington, D.C., to be an Assistant Attorney General. She would replace Barbara A. Babcock, resigned, and her area of responsibility would be the Civil Division. Daniel has been General Counsel and Interim Director of the Legal Services Corporation in Washington since 1976.
She was born September 17, 1934, in New York City. She received a B.A. from Boston University in 1958 and an LL.B. from Columbia University School of Law in 1963.
Daniel was a teaching associate, then a research associate, at Columbia University School of Law from 1963 to 1966. She was an attorney with the New York City Investigations Commission from 1966 to 1967 and with the New York State Council on the Arts during 1967.
From 1967 to 1970, Daniel was an attorney with the California Legal Aid Society, and from 1970 to 1972, she was with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was on the faculty of Hastings College of Law from 1972 to 1974 and was a director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1974 to 1975. During 1975 she was deputy legal affairs secretary to the Governor of California.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Justice Nomination of Alice Daniel To Be an Assistant Attorney General. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248297