Nomination of Rosalie Gaull Silberman To Be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Rosalie Gaull Silberman to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the remainder of the term expiring July 1, 1985. She would succeed Cathie A. Shattuck, resigned.

Since 1983 Mrs. Silberman has served as Special Assistant to Commissioner Mimi Weyforth Dawson at the Federal Communications Commission. Previously, she was director of public relations, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, in 1982-1983; executive director and secretary-treasurer, New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, in 1981-1983; and was director of communications and press secretary to Senator Robert Packwood (R-OR) in 1977-1979.

Mrs. Silberman has served as a member of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children and chaired the legislative subcommittee. She also served on the board of Widening Horizons, a volunteer organization which emphasized the importance of career development and planning for inner-city youth. She was a teacher in Montgomery County, MD, where she developed a program for disadvantaged students, promoting language development and skills with creative arts as a teaching tool.

Mrs. Silberman graduated from Smith College (A.B., 1958). She is married, has three children, and resides in Washington, DC, and San Francisco, CA. She was born March 31, 1937, in Jackson, MI.