Nomination of Richard Schifter To Be Deputy United States Representative in the United Nations Security Council

The President today announced his intention to nominate Richard Schifter, of Maryland, to be Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador. He would succeed William Courtney Sherman.

Mr. Schifter served in the United States Army in 1943-1946. Since 1951 he has been with the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Kampelman in Washington, DC, and has been a partner since 1957. He served in Government as economic investigator of the Office of Military Government for Germany in Berlin in 1946-1948. He was an attorney on the President's Materials Policy Commission (1951) and counsel for the Office of Food for Peace (1961). In 1966-1967 he was a member of the President's Task Force on American Indians. Since 1980 he has been a member of the United States Holocaust Council. He has served on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations as Alternate United States Representative in 1981-1982 and since 1983 as Representative of the United States of America. He was United States Representative on the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations of UNESCO in 1981-1983. In 1984 he served as head of the United States delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission with the personal rank of Ambassador for the meeting held in February and March.

Mr. Schifter graduated from the College of the City of New York (B.S., 1943) and Yale University (LL.B., 1951). His foreign language is German. He was born July 31, 1923, in Vienna, Austria, and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943.