Department of the Treasury Nomination of Curtis Alan Hessler To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Curtis Alan Hessler, of Westlake Village, Calif., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He would replace Daniel Brill, resigned, and his area of responsibility would be economic policy.

Hessler was Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1979 until earlier this year.

He was born December 27, 1943, in Berwyn, Ill. He received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1966, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973, and received an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976.

From 1973 to 1974, Hessler was a clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and from 1974 to 1975, he was law clerk for Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court. In 1976 he practiced law with the Los Angeles firm of Munger, Tolles & Rickershauser.

From 1976 to 1977, Hessler was a senior policy adviser in economics for the Carter-Mondale Transition Planning Group. From 1977 to 1979, he was Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury and Executive Director of the Cabinet Economic Policy Group.