The President today announced that he will nominate Carin Ann Clauss to be Solicitor of the Department of Labor. Ms. Clauss is presently an Associate Solicitor for the Fair Labor Standards Division in the Department of Labor.
She was born in Knoxville, Tenn., on January 24, 1939. She received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1960 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1963.
She has been at the Labor Department since August 1963. From 1963 to 1965, Ms. Clauss was an attorney in the Department. She served as special assistant to the Deputy Solicitor of Labor from 1966 to 1968, and as Deputy Counsel for Appellate Litigation in 1968 and 1969.
From 1969 to 1971, Ms. Clauss served as Counsel for Appellate Litigation in the Department. She has been Associate Solicitor for the Fair Labor Standards Division since 1972.
She was cochairman of the Labor Committee of the Federal Bar Association in 1968 and 1972. She is a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Executive Women in Government, and the Federal Executive League.
She has received the Federal Woman's Award (1976) and the Labor Department's Distinguished Career Service Award (1976). She was the Labor Department's nominee for the Rockefeller Public Service Award in 1974.
Jimmy Carter, Department of Labor Nomination of Carin Ann Clauss To Be Solicitor. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/242818