Nomination of Dennis M. Devaney To Be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board

The President today announced his intention to nominate Dennis M. Devaney to be a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board for a term expiring March 1, 1988. He would succeed Ronald P. Wertheim.

He is in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C. He was counsel for the Food Marketing Institute in Washington, D.C., in 1977-1979. He was assistant general counsel, U.S. Brewers Association, Washington, D.C., in 1975-1977. While in law school, Mr. Devaney was a law clerk at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and at the law firm of Donelan, Cleary, Wood and Maser, Washington, D.C. He was also a legislative assistant in the Maryland General Assembly at that time.

Mr. Devaney graduated from the University of Maryland (B.A., 1968; M.A., 1970) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1975). He is married, has two children, and resides in Columbia, Md. He was born February 25, 1946.