Department of Justice Nomination of Sanford M. Litvack To Be an Assistant Attorney General.

The President today announced that he will nominate Sanford M. Litvack, of Rockville Centre, N.Y., to be Assistant Attorney General. He would replace John Shenefield, who has been appointed Associate Attorney General.

Litvack has practiced law with the New York City firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine since 1961 and has been a member of the firm since 1969.

He was born April 29, 1936, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1957 and an LL.B. from Georgetown Law Center in 1959.

From 1959 to 1961, Litvack was a trial attorney with the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.