The President today announced his intention to appoint T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., to be Assistant Counsellor to the President. This appointment carries with it the commissioned rank of Deputy Assistant to the President. In his new position, Mr. Cribb will work directly with Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III.
From the beginning of the Reagan administration to the present, Mr. Cribb has served as Assistant Director, Office of Cabinet Affairs, and Staff Assistant to the President. His duties have included managing issues through the Cabinet and Cabinet Council systems and providing a point of contact between the White House and offices of the Cabinet members.
During the transition, Mr. Cribb took a leave of absence from the firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood to serve as deputy director of the legal and administrative agencies group, office of executive branch management.
He was national director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in 1971-1977. He has also served as a consultant to the Heritage Foundation.
Mr. Cribb graduated from Washington and Lee University (B.A., 1970) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1980). He is 33 years old and resides in Arlington, Va.
Ronald Reagan, Appointment of T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., as Assistant Counsellor to the President Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245911