The President today announced his intention to nominate William Bradford Reynolds to be an Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights Division), Department of Justice.
Mr. Reynolds has been a litigation partner with the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, D.C., since 1973. From 1970 to 1973, he was assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, Erwin Griswold. In 1967-70 he was an associate with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, N.Y. In 1966 he was assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Reynolds received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1964 and his law degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1967.
Mr. Reynolds is married, with four children, and resides in Potomac, Md. He was born June 21, 1942, in Bridgeport, Conn.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of William Bradford Reynolds To Be an Assistant Attorney General Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246481