The President today announced his intention to nominate George R. Salem to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor. He would succeed Francis X. Lilly.
Mr. Salem has been serving as Deputy Solicitor of Labor since April 1985. Previously he was a partner in the law firm of Thompson, Mann and Hutson in Washington, DC. He also served as a consultant to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, in 1982.
He graduated from Emory College (B.A., 1975), Emory University School of Law (,I.D., 1977), and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1984). He is married, has two children, and resides in Springfield, VA. He was born December 24, 1953, in Jacksonville, FL.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of George R. Salem To Be Solicitor of the Department of Labor Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/258480