Federal Trade Commission Nomination of Patricia P. Bailey To Be a Commissioner.

The President today announced that he will nominate Patricia P. Bailey, of Washington, D.C., to be a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission for a term expiring September 25, 1980. She would replace Elizabeth Hanford Dole, resigned.

Bailey is executive legal assistant to the General Counsel at the Merit Systems Protection Board.

She was born June 20, 1937, in Fort Smith, Ark. She received a B.A. from Linderwood College in 1959, an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 1960, and a J.D. from the American University Law School in 1976.

From 1961 to 1966, Bailey was with the Agency for International Development as an assistant desk officer for the Dominican Republic, then Haiti; desk officer for Trinidad-Tobago and Guyana; and executive assistant to the coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, Latin American Bureau. In 1967 and 1968, she was a staff assistant to Representative F. Bradford Morse. In 1968 she worked on then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign.

In 1972 and 1973, Bailey worked for the National Women's Political Caucus. In 1976 she was active in the Rockefeller for President campaign, then in the President Ford Committee. From 1977 to 1979, she was at the Justice Department, serving as special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Improvements in the Administration of Justice. From 1978 to 1979, she was on special detail to the Attorney General to work on Federal judgeships. She has been at the Merit Systems Protection Board since March of this year.