Department of Justice Nomination of Harry Alan Scarr To Be Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The President today announced that he will nominate Harry Alan Scarr, of Bluemont, Va., to be Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a new position.

Scarr has been with the Justice Department since 1972 and is currently Administrator of the Federal Justice Research Program, Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice.

He was born May 4, 1934, in Massilon, Ohio. He received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1956 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963.

From 1961 to 1963, Scarr was an assistant research sociologist with Harvard University Health Services. He was a staff fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies from 1963 to 1966. From 1966 to 1969, he was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

From 1970 to 1972, Scarr was a research scientist with Human Sciences Research. He joined the Justice Department in 1972 as a social scientist with the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, and then served as Acting Assistant Administrator of that Institute. In 1973 and 1974 he was a social scientist with the Office of Criminal Justice, and from 1974 to 1977, he was with the Office of Policy and Planning as Supervisory Social Scientist, then Assistant Director.