Department of the Treasury Nomination of Robert H. Mundheim To Be General Counsel.

The President today announced that he will nominate Robert H. Mundheim, of Philadelphia, Pa., to be General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury. Mundheim is the Fred Carr Professor of Law and Financial Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; professor of finance at the Wharton School; and director of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Center for Study of Financial Institutions.

Mundheim was born February 24, 1933, in Hamburg, Germany. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1954 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1957. He served in the U.S. Air Force in 1961 and 1962.

Mundheim was with Shearman & Sterling in New York City from 1958 to 1961. He was special counsel on Investment Company Act matters at the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1962 and 1963. He was a visiting professor of law at Duke Law School in 1964 and has been at the University of Pennsylvania Law School since 1965.