Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Nomination of Charles F. C. Ruff To Be Deputy Inspector General.

The President today announced that he will nominate Charles F. C. Ruff, of Washington, D.C., to be Deputy Inspector General in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Ruff is now an associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center and has been the Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.

He was born March 1, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1960 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1963.

From 1963 to 1965, Ruff was an instructor at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, University of Liberia, in Monrovia, Liberia. In 1966-67 he was an instructor in legal method .at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

From 1967 to 1970, Ruff was a trial attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Criminal Division, at the Justice Department. From 1970 to 1972, he was Chief of the Management and Labor Section in the Criminal Division at Justice.

Ruff was an attorney and professor at the Antioch School of Law in 1972-73. He has been an associate professor at Georgetown Law Center since 1973 and also served as Acting Chief Inspector of the Drug Enforcement Administration during 1975, as Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Force from 1973 to 1975, and Special Prosecutor from 1975 until that office was closed.