Appointment of Robert H. Bork as a Member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise

The President today appointed Robert H. Bork to be a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise for a term of 8 years. He would succeed Paul J. Mishkin.

Since 1988 Judge Bork has been the John M. Olin scholar in legal studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Previously he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC.

Judge Bork graduated from the University of Chicago (B.A., 1948; J.D., 1948). He was born on March 1, 1927, in Pittsburgh, PA. He is married, has three children, and resides in Washington, DC.