Administrative Conference of the United States Appointment of Seven Members of the Council.

The President today announced the appointment of seven persons as members of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States. They are:

Government representatives

JOAN Z. BERNSTEIN, General Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency

MICHAEL J. EGAN, Associate Attorney General

MARGARET A. MCKENNA, Deputy Counsel to the President

MICHAEL PERTSCHUK, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Public representatives

WALTER GELLHORN, professor emeritus at Columbia University School of Law (reappointment)

IRA M. MILLSTEIN, a New York attorney and adjunct professor of law and trade regulation at New York University School of Law

OTIS M. SMITH, of Detroit, Mich., general counsel of General Motors and a former justice of the Michigan supreme court.

The Administrative Conference was created in 1964 to develop improvements in the legal procedures by which Federal agencies administer regulatory, benefit, and other Government programs. Its members include agency heads, other Federal officials, private lawyers, university professors, and other experts in administrative law and government.