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Appointment of Three Members of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

April 17, 1981

The President today appointed the following individuals to serve on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, pursuant to the Claims Settlement Agreement of January 19, 1981. The United States and Iran are each to appoint three arbitrators to the Claims Tribunal by April 19; those six arbitrators are to appoint three "neutral" arbitrators by May 19, 1981.

Malcolm R. Wilkes/, appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1970. He was general counsel, Kennecott Copper Corp. in 1967-70; Assistant Attorney General of the United States in 1958-61; and U.S. attorney, Southern District of Texas in 1954-58. He was graduated from Harvard (A.B., 1940; LL.B., 1948). Mr. Wilkey was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on December 6, 1918.

Richard M. Mosk, partner in the Los Angeles firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, specializing in litigation. He was special deputy Federal public defender, in 1975-76, handling Federal criminal cases. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Commission on Judicial Procedures and was a member of the staff of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1964. Mr. Mosk is married and has two children. He was graduated from Stanford University (A.B.) and Harvard (J.D.). He is 41 years old and resides in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Howard M. Holtzmann, partner in the New York firm of Holtzmann, Wise & Shepard, specializing in arbitration and international private law. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law since 1975; member of a study group on arbitration of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law; past chairman of the board of the American Arbitration Association, and currently chairman of its international arbitration committee. Previously he served as director of the Syntex Corp,, the Ogden Corp., and CF & I Steel Corp. Mr. Holtzmann was graduated from Yale University (A.B., 1942) and St. Bonaventure University (J.D., 1947). He is married and resides in New York City. He was born in New York on December 10, 1921.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Three Members of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246860

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