Office of Personnel Management; Merit Systems Protection Board Recess Appointment of Members.

The President today announced four recess appointments to positions created by the civil service reorganization plan, effective January 1, 1979. They are:

ALAN K. CAMPBELL, previously Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, is appointed Director of the Office of Personnel Management;

JULE M. SUGARMAN, previously Vice Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, is appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management;

RUTH T. PROKOP, previously General Counsel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is appointed as Chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board; and

H. PATRICK SWYGERT, previously General Counsel of the Civil Service Commission, is appointed Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Swygert, 35, a graduate of Howard University Law School, was a professor of law at Temple University before joining the Civil Service Commission.