Special Panel for Employment Discrimination Cases Nomination of James E. Jones, Jr., To Be Chairman.

The President today announced his intention to nominate James E. Jones, Jr., of Madison, Wis., to be Chairman of the Special Panel which was created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 to resolve conflicts between the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in employment discrimination cases.

Jones has been a professor of law and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin since 1969.

He was born June 4, 1924, in Little Rock, Ark. He received a B.A. from Lincoln University in 1950, an M.A. from the University of Illinois in 1951, and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin School of Law in 1956.

From 1951 to 1953, Jones was an industrial relations analyst for the U.S. Wage Stabilization Board. He was with the U.S. Labor Department from 1956 to 1969, serving as a legislative attorney, as counsel for labor relations, as Director of the Office of Labor Management Policy Development, and as Associate Solicitor for the Division of Labor Relations and Civil Rights.

Jones has been a professor of law and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin since 1969 and is considered an expert in both civil service and civil rights law. He has been on the staff of the Institute for Research on Poverty since 1970 and has been director of the Center for Equal Employment and Affirmative Action at the University's Industrial Relations Research Institute since 1974. From 1971 to 1973, he was director of the Industrial Relations Research Institute.