The President today announced his intention to nominate Roger Milton Olsen to be an Assistant Attorney General (Tax Division), Department of Justice. He would succeed Glenn L. Archer, Jr.
Since 1983 Mr. Olsen has been serving at the Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division. Previously he served at Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division in 1981-1983. He was in the private practice of law in Washington, DC, in 1980-1981 and before that as a principal with Wickham & Craft, PC, in Washington, DC, in 1978-1980. He served as an associate with Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber and as adjunct professor at Golden Gate University in 1977. He was at the Department of Justice in 1972-1976 as trial attorney in the Tax Division.
He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley (A.B., 1964; J.D., 1968) and George Washington University (LL.M., 1977). He is married, has one child, and resides in Alexandria, VA. He was born April 27, 1942, in San Jose, CA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Roger Milton Olsen To Be an Assistant Attorney General Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/258844