Nomination of R. Tenney Johnson To Be General Counsel of the Department of Energy

The President announced today his intention to nominate R. Tenney Johnson to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy.

Since 1978 Mr. Johnson has been a partner with the firm of Sullivan & Beauregard of Washington, D.C. In 1976-77 he was a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board. He was General Counsel of the Energy Research and Development Administration in 1975-76 and General Counsel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1973-75. In 1970-73 Mr. Johnson was General Counsel to the Civil Aeronautics Board. Mr. Johnson served as Deputy General Counsel to the Department of Transportation in 1967-70 and the Department of the Army in 1963-67. He was an attorney with the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense, in 1959-63.

In 1977 he was Chairman of the Organizational Integration Working Group, Department of Energy Activation Task Force. He was U.S. Cochairman, U.S./U.S.S.R. Joint Working Group on Intellectual Property, U.S./U.S.S.R. Agreements for Cooperation in 1975-79.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the District of Columbia and American Bar Associations. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Energy Research and Development Administration in 1976. He was graduated from the University of Rochester (A.B., 1951) and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1958). He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in 1951-54.

Mr. Johnson is married and has three children. He resides with his family in Bethesda, Md. He was born in Evanston, Ill., on March 24, 1930.