Nomination of Kenneth W. Dam To Be Deputy Secretary of State

The President today announced his intention to nominate Kenneth W. Dam to serve as the Deputy Secretary of State, vice Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.

Mr. Dam has been the provost of the University of Chicago since 1980 and the Harold J. and Marion F. Green Professor of International Legal Studies, University of Chicago Law School, since 1976. He first joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1960 and was named professor of law in 1964.

Mr. Dam left the University of Chicago to serve in the Federal Government as Assistant Director for National Security and International Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget in 1971. In 1973 he was named Executive Director of the Council on Economic Policy. After returning to the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1974, Mr. Dam served as a consultant to the Office of Management and Budget (1974), Department of the Treasury (1974), the Administrative Conference (1974-1975), the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (1975), and the Federal Trade Commission (1975-1976).

He is the author of numerous books and articles. In addition, Mr. Dam was adjunct scholar and member, academic advisory board, the American Enterprise Institute, from 1976 to the present; consultant to the RAND Corp., 1974 to the present; and a member of the board of directors of the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations, 1979 to the present.

Mr. Dam received his B.S. degree from the University of Kansas in 1954 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1957. After graduation from law school, he was law clerk to Mr. Justice Whittaker, the U.S. Supreme Court, and thereafter was associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City from 1958 to 1960. Mr. Dam is married to the former Marcia Wachs, and they have two children. He was horn August 10, 1932, in Marysville, Kans.