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Nomination of William Francis Baxter To Be an Assistant Attorney General

February 20, 1981

The President announced today his intention to nominate William Francis Baxter to be an Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division), Department of Justice.

Mr. Baxter is a professor of law at Stanford University. He is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He has been at Stanford since 1960.

In 1964-65 he was visiting professor of law at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

In 1958-60 Mr. Baxter was with Covington & Burling of Washington, D.C. In 1956-58 he was a member of the faculty at Stanford University Law School.

In 1968 Mr. Baxter was a member of the President's Task Force on Antitrust Policy.

Mr. Baxter was graduated from Stanford University (A.B., 1951; J.D., 1956). He is a resident of Atherton, Calif., and was born in New York, N.Y., on July 13, 1929.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of William Francis Baxter To Be an Assistant Attorney General Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246677

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