Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Nomination of J. Clay Smith, Jr., To Be a Member.

The President today announced that he will nominate J. Clay Smith, Jr., of Washington, D.C., to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for a term expiring July 1, 1982.

Smith was born April 15, 1942, in Omaha, Nebr. He received a B.A. from Creighton University in 1964, a J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1967, and an LL.M. (1970) and S.J.D. (1977) from George Washington University School of Law. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1971, serving as a captain and, for a year, as a military judge in the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

From 1971 to 1974, Smith was associated with the Washington law firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, where he was primarily engaged in antitrust and trade regulation matters. From 1974 to 1976, he was Deputy Chief of the Cable Television Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. Since 1976 he has been Associate General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission.

Smith has served as an adjunct professor of law at Howard University Law School. He is a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and has served on the boards of directors of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Neighborhood Legal Service Program. He is coauthor of the book "Criminal Defense Techniques," and author of numerous articles and a series of children's books on the law.