Nomination of Sonia Landau To Be a Member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The President today announced his intention to nominate Sonia Landau to be a member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the remainder of the term expiring March 26, 1986. She would succeed Melba Pattila Beals.

Ms. Landau served on the Presidential transition team on the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981. Previously she was executive director of the New York State Republican Finance Committee in 1980. In 1978-79 she was employed with J. Walter Thompson of London, England. Ms. Landau was director of corporate affairs, The Dreyfus Corp., New York, N.Y., in 1977-78. She was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Congress for the 18th Congressional District in New York in 1976. In 1973-75 Ms. Landau was a media specialist with Roger Ailes and Associates, Inc., of New York. She was director of radio and television at the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1969-72.

Ms. Landau graduated from the University of Denver (B.A., 1958) and the University of California. She resides in New York, N.Y., and was born on July 14, 1937, in Wichita, Kans.