Nomination of Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., To Be an Assistant Attorney General

The President today announced his intention to nominate Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., to be an Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) at the Department of Justice. He would succeed William F. Weld.

Since 1983 Mr. Dennis has been United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Prior to this he was chief of the narcotic and dangerous drug section at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, 1980-1983. Mr. Dennis was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, 1978-1980, and Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office, 1975-1980. He was a law clerk for the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., at the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, 1973-1975.

Mr. Dennis graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (B.S., 1967) and the University of Pennsylvania (LL.D., 1973). He was born January 24, 1945, in Salisbury, MD. He is married, has one child, and resides in Pennsylvania.