Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Appointment of Paul J. Mishkin as a Member.

The President today announced the appointment of Paul J. Mishkin as a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise for an 8-year term.

Mishkin, 52, of Oakland, Calif., is the Emanuel S. Heller professor of constitutional law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

The Committee was established by Public Law 84-246, of August 5, 1955, to administer the fund bequeathed to the Treasury by Justice Holmes. The fund is to be used for the preparation of a history of the Supreme Court by distinguished scholars and financing annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures.