Appointment of Ellen F. Paul as United States Representative on the United Nations Commission for Social Development

The President today announced his intention to appoint Ellen F. Paul to be the Representative of the United States of America on the Commission for Social Development of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. She will succeed Ruth Schachter Morgenthau.

Ms. Paul is research director for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and associate professor of political science at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Previously, she was national fellow at the Hoover Institution in 1980-1981; assistant professor at the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 1980-1981; visiting assistant professor at Miami University (Ohio) in 1977-1980; visiting fellow in government at Harvard University in 1976- 1977; and teaching assistant in American political theory at Harvard in 1971-1972.

She graduated from Brandeis University (B.A, 1970) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1976). She is married and resides in Bowling Green, Ohio. She was born October 18, 1948, in New York, N.Y.