Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Nomination of Leroy D. Clark To Be General Counsel.

The President today announced that he will nominate Leroy D. Clark, of New York City, to be General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for a 4-year term. He would replace Abner Sibal, who has resigned.

Clark is a professor of law at New York University School of Law, and an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

He was born April 27, 1934, in New York City. He received a B.A. from City College of New York in 1956 and an LL.B. from Columbia University School of Law in 1961.

From 1961 to 1962, Clark was staff counsel with the State of New York Attorney General's Office. From 1962 to 19.68, he was assistant counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He has been a professor at N.Y.U. since 1968 and has been an arbitrator since 1974.

Clark is a member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the advisory council of the Association for Union Democracy. He was on the commission on juvenile justice standards of the Institute for Judicial Administration and the American Bar Association.