Nomination of Sam A. Nixon To Be a Member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

The President today announced his intention to nominate Sam A. Nixon to be a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Defense, for a term expiring June 20, 1991. He would succeed Caro Elise Luhrs.

Dr. Nixon is currently director of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He has been a practicing physician specializing in family medicine and surgery since 1954 and was chief of staff at Memorial Hospital, Floresville, TX, 1968-1972. Dr. Nixon served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Korea, Japan, and Texas, 1950-1954.

He graduated from Texas A&M University (B.S., 1946) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (M.D., 1950). Dr. Nixon is married, has four children, and resides in Houston, TX. He was born June 28, 1927, in Galveston, TX.