Appointment of James Webb as a Member of the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council

The President today announced his intention to appoint James Webb to be a member of the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council. This is a new position.

Mr. Webb is a writer. He was assistant minority counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs in the U.S. Congress in 1977-1978. In 1979 he became the first visiting writer at the United States Naval Academy. He returned to the Congress in 1979 to become the chief minority counsel for the Veterans Affairs Committee. Since 1981 he has been a full-time writer.

He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1968. Mr. Webb received a degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. He is married, has two children, and resides in Arlington, Va. He was born February 9, 1946, in St. Joseph, Mo.