The President today announced his intention to nominate Frank K. Richardson to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior. He would succeed William H. Coldiron.
Judge Richardson is presently serving on the faculty of Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, CA. Previously, he was on the California Supreme Court in 1974-1983; presiding justice of the Court of Appeals, 3d District, Sacramento, in 1971-1974; and on the National Institute of Justice Advisory Board in 1966-1969. He was in private law practice in Oroville, and then Sacramento in 1939-1971, and professor of law at McGeorge School of Law in 1946-1951.
He is a member of the California Bar Association and has served on several association committees. He is also president of the board of Methodist Hospital in Sacramento.
Judge Richardson graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1935; LL.B., 1938). He is married, has four children, and resides in Sacramento, CA. He was born February 13, 1914, in St. Helena, CA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Frank K. Richardson To Be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261276