The President today announced that he will nominate Homer E. Moyer, Jr., of Washington, D.C., to be General Counsel of the Commerce Department. He would replace C. L. Haslam, resigning. Moyer has been Counsellor to the Secretary of Commerce since earlier this year and was Deputy General Counsel from 1976 to 1979.
He was born November 20, 1942, in Atlanta, Ga. He graduated from Emory University in 1964 and from Yale Law School in 1967.
From 1968 to 1971, Moyer was an attorney in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. From 1971 to 1973, he was a fellow with the Public Law Education Institute in Washington. From 1973 to 1976, he practiced law with the firm of Covington & Burling.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Commerce Nomination of Homer E. Moyer, Jr., To Be General Counsel. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248159