The President today announced that he will nominate Charles B. Renfrew, of San Francisco, Calif., to be Deputy Attorney General. He would replace Benjamin Civiletti, who has been appointed Attorney General. Renfrew has been a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of California since 1972.
He was born October 31, 1928, in Detroit, Mich. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1952 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1956.
From 1956 to 1972, Renfrew was with the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, as an associate from 1956 to 1965 and a member from 1965 to 1972.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Justice Nomination of Charles B. Renfrew To Be Deputy Attorney General. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249103