Nomination of Benjamin F. Baer To Be Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Benjamin F. Baer to be Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission for a term of 6 years. He would succeed Joseph A. Nardoza.

Since 1972 Mr. Baer has been associated with the United States Parole Commission. He was hearing examiner in 1972-74 and later was appointed Administrative Hearing Examiner, Western Region, in 1974-79. Since 1979 he has been conducting parole hearings of Federal prisoners in the 14 Western institutions. Previously he was chairman, Youth Conservation Commission, Department of Corrections, St. Paul, Minn., and deputy commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, in charge of the juvenile institutions of the State, in 1967-72. In 1965-67 he was codirector of the Correctional Decisions Information Project in Sacramento, Calif., and was director of corrections, State of Iowa, in 1960-64. Mr. Baer was associate warden of San Quentin Prison in 1954-60.

Mr. Baer graduated from San Diego State College (B.A., 1941) and the University of Southern California (M.A., 1947). He is married, has three children, and resides in San Mateo, Calif. He was born January 2, 1918, in Peoria, Ill.