Department of Justice Nomination of John H. Shenefield To Be an Assistant Attorney General.

The President today announced that he will nominate John H. Shenefield, of Richmond, Va., to be an Assistant Attorney General. He would replace Donald I. Baker. Shenefield is Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department.

He was born January 23, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio. He received an A.B. (1960) and an LL.B. (1965 from Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Army in 1961 and 1962.

Shenefield was with the law firm of Hunton and Williams, in Richmond, from 1965 until April 1977, when he became Deputy Assistant Attorney General.