Superior Court of the District of Columbia Nomination of Henry Kennedy, Jr., and Frank Schwelb To Be Associate Judges.

The President today announced that he will nominate Henry Kennedy, Jr., and Frank Schwelb to the vacancies on the District of Columbia Superior Court, caused by the resignations of Judges Joyce Green and William Pryor. Green was recently named to the United States District Court, and Pryor was elevated to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Kennedy, 31, has served for the last 3 years as one of three Federal Magistrates on the United States District Court. Prior to that time, he worked for the United States Attorney's office in Washington. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

Schwelb, a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, has worked in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice since 1962, and for a number of years headed the Division's fair housing office. He is 47.