Nomination of Saundra Brown Armstrong To Be a Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Saundra Brown Armstrong to be a Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission for a term of 6 years. She would succeed Helen G. Corrothers.

Since 1984 Mrs. Armstrong has been a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and she was a Vice Chairman, 1984-1985. She was a trial attorney, Justice Department, Public Integrity Section, 1982-1984; deputy district attorney, Alameda County district attorney's office, 1980-1982 and 1977-1979; and a senior consultant, California Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice, 1979-1981.

Mrs. Armstrong graduated from California State University at Fresno (B.A., 1969) and the University of San Francisco School of Law (J.D., 1977). She is married, has two children, and resides in Alexandria, VA. Mrs. Armstrong was born March 23, 1947, in Oakland, CA.