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Nomination of Robert P. Hunter To Be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board

June 18, 1981

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert P. Hunter to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board, term expiring August 27, 1985, vice John C. Truesdale.

Since January 1981 Mr. Hunter has been serving as chief counsel and chief of staff for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. He was responsible for development of all policy issues which fall within the Committee's broad jurisdiction, including labor law. In 1977-81 he was legislative director and Labor Committee counsel to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Mr. Hunter was Senate Labor Committee counsel to Senator Robert Taft, Jr., (R-Ohio) in 1974-76. In 1969-74 he was an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in the Buffalo, N.Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio, regional offices. Prior to this time he was an attorney with the firm of Coffman and Jones, Jacksonville, Fla.

Mr. Hunter graduated from the University of Connecticut (B.S., 1962); Vanderbilt Law School (J.D., 1965); and New York University Graduate Law School (LL.M. 1966).

He served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate Corps in 1966-69.

Mr. Hunter is married, has three children, and resides in Vienna, Va. He was born August 23, 1940, in Bridgeport, Conn.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Robert P. Hunter To Be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247190

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