The President today announced his intention to nominate William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice. He would succeed D. Lowell Jensen.
Since July 1981 he has been serving as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division. Previously, he was a litigation partner with the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington, DC (1973-1981); assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States in 1970-1973; associate with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City (1967-1970); and assistant to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee in 1966.
Mr. Reynolds graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1964) and Vanderbilt University School of Law (J.D., 1967). He is married, has four children, and resides in Potomac, MD. He was born June 21, 1942, in Bridgeport, CT.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of William Bradford Reynolds To Be Associate Attorney General Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/259054