Nomination of Malcolm Richard Wilkey To Be United States Ambassador to Uruguay

The President today announced his intention to nominate Malcolm Richard Wilkey, of Texas, as Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. He would succeed Thomas Aranda, Jr.

Mr. Wilkey began his career in 1948 as an associate with Butler, Binion, Rice & Cook in Houston, TX, where he was employed until 1954. He then entered government service as special assistant to the attorney general in Houston in 1953. In 1954 he became United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, and in 1958 he was named Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Legal Counsel in Washington, DC. In 1959 he became Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division until 1961. In 1959 he also served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Conference on Judicial Remedies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1961 to 1963, he was a partner with Butler, Binion, Rice & Cook, and from 1963 to 1970, he was general counsel, associate general counsel, and secretary with Kennecott Copper Corp. in New York. From 1969 to 1973, Mr. Wilkey was a member of the Advisory Panel on International Law for the Legal Adviser in the Department of State. From 1970 until he retired in 1985, he was U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1975 to 1979, he served on the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Committee on Rules for Admission to Practice in the Federal Courts. Since early 1985 Mr. Wilkey has been a visiting fellow at Wolfson College in Cambridge, England.

Mr. Wilkey was born December 6, 1918, in Murfreesboro, TN. He received his A.B. in 1940 from Harvard College and his J.D. in 1948 from Harvard Law School. He served in the United States Army from 1941 to 1945 and in the U.S. Army Active Reserve from 1948 to 1954. His foreign language is Spanish. Mr. Wilkey is married to the former Emma Secul.