Nomination of Truman McGill Hobbs To Be a Member of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Truman McGill Hobbs to be a member of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation for a term expiring December 10, 1991. This is a reappointment.

Since 1980 Mr. Hobbs has been serving as U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama. Previously he had a private law practice in Alabama, 1949-1980, and during that time he served as president of the Alabama Bar Association, 1970-1971; the Montgomery Bar Association, 1965-1966; and the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, 1964-1965.

Mr. Hobbs graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942) and Yale Law School (LL.B., 1948). He is married, has four children, and resides in Montgomery, AL. Mr. Hobbs was born February 8, 1921, in Selma, AL.