The President today announced his intention to nominate James M. Stephens to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of 5 years expiring August 27, 1990. He would succeed Robert P. Hunter.
Since 1981 Mr. Stephens has been labor counsel to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Previously, he was associate minority labor counsel to the House Committee on Education and Labor (1977-1981); an associate in the law firm of Roetzel and Andress in Akron, OH (1973-1977); and law clerk for Judge Leo A. Jackson, Ohio Court of Appeals, Eighth Appellate District, in Cleveland, OH (1971-1973).
He graduated from Wittenberg University (A.B., 1968) and Case Western Reserve University (J.D., 1971). He is married, has one child, and resides in Arlington, VA. He was born September 16, 1946, in Syracuse, NY.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of James M. Stephens To Be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260171