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Appointment of Two Members of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and Designation of Vice Chairman

June 02, 1981

The President today announced his intention to appoint Robert Boone Hawkins, Jr., as private citizen member, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, for a term of 2 years.

In 1980 Mr. Hawkins became president of Trendsetter Energy Systems, Inc. Since 1979 he has been a fellow with the Center for the Study of Federalism. In 1978 he was president of the Sequoia Institute in Sacramento. Since 1976 he has been the president of Capital Resource Development Corp. and has also been program coordinator of the Woodrow Wilson Institute for Scholars. In 1975 he was a visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In March of 1974 he was cofounder and board member of the Institute of Contemporary Studies in San Francisco until 1978.

Mr. Hawkins received his B.S. degree in 1965 from San Francisco State College and his Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous publications on federalism.

Mr. Hawkins was born September 6, 1941, in Berkely, Calif. He is married, with two children, and resides in Vacaville, Calif.

The President today also announced his intention to appoint Governor Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) as a member of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations for a term of 2 years. He will also be designated as Vice Chairman of the Commission.

Ronald Reagan, Appointment of Two Members of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and Designation of Vice Chairman Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246592

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