Nomination of Reggie B. Walton To Be Associate Director for National Drug Control Policy

The President today announced his intention to nominate Reggie B. Walton to be Associate Director for National Drug Control Policy (Bureau of State and Local Affairs). This is a new position.

Since 1986 Mr. Walton has been deputy presiding judge of the criminal division for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He was an associate judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, since 1981. He has served as executive assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 1980 - 1981; assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, chief of the career criminal unit, 1979 - 1980. He was assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 1976 - 1980; and a staff attorney for the Defender Association of Philadelphia, 1974 - 1976. He has also served as an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy of Georgetown University Law School, 1983 to present.

Mr. Walton graduated from West Virginia State College (B.A., 1971) and American University, Washington College of Law (J.D., 1974). He was born February 8, 1949.