The President today announced his intention to nominate Lee H. Henkel, Jr., to be a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board for a term expiring June 30, 1989. He would succeed Donald I. Hovde.
Mr. Henkel is currently a senior partner, Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore in Atlanta, GA. Previously, he was chairman of the board of Sands Investments, Inc., in Myrtle Beach, SC; General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department; and Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service from 1971 to 1973.
Mr. Henkel graduated from Duke University (A.B, 1949 and J.D., 1952). He is married, has three children, and resides in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Henkel was born September 16, 1928, in Charleston, WV.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Lee H. Henkel, Jr., To Be a Member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/255495