United States Ambassador to Mexico Nomination of Julian Nava.

The President today announced that he will nominate Julian Nava, of Northridge, Calif., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico. He would replace Patrick J. Lucey, resigned.

Nava is special assistant to the president of California State University and previously taught history there for 22 years.

He was born June 19, 1927, in Los Angeles, Calif. He received an A.B. from Pomona College in 1951 and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955. He served in the U.S. Naval Air Force from 1945 to 1946.

From 1953 to 1954, Nava was a teacher at the United States Cultural Center in Caracas, and from 1955 to 1957, he was a teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. From 1957 to 1979, he was a professor of history at California State University.

In 1962-63 Nava taught at the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain, and in 1964-65 he taught at the Centro de Estudio Universitarios Colombo-Americano in Bogota. From 1967 to 1979, he served on the Los Angeles Board of Education. He has been special assistant to the president of California State University since earlier this year.

Nava is chairman of the McGraw-Hill National Broadcasting Advisory Council for Public Service Programs and has served as president of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies. He is on the boards of Plaza de la Raza and the Hispanic Urban Center and on the advisory committees of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Bilingual Children's Television. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of Mexican Americans.