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Vice President Completes Appointments for CIA Commission: David W. Belin, Harold Baker, Ernest Gellhorn, Robert B. Olsen, William W. Schwarzer, Marvin L. Gray, Jr., George A. Manfredi, James N. Roethe, James Burton Weidner, and Ronald J. Greene [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Vice President Completes Appointments for CIA Commission: David W. Belin, Harold Baker, Ernest Gellhorn, Robert B. Olsen, William W. Schwarzer, Marvin L. Gray, Jr., George A. Manfredi, James N. Roethe, James Burton Weidner, and Ronald J. Greene [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 7 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 13, 1975
Office of the Vice President
Washington, D. C.
The Vice President today announced completion of professional staff
appointments for the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United
States. They are:
David W. Belin, 46, Executive Director. He is a senior
partner of the Des Moines, Iowa, law firm of Herrick, Langdon,
Belin, Harris, Langdon & Helmick. He has practiced law in
Des Moines since graduating in 1954 from the University of
Michigan where in six years he earned undergraduate, Master
of Business Administration and Juris Doctor degrees - all
with high distinction. From the University of Michigan Law
School, he received the Henry M. Bates Memorial Award made
to each of the two most outstanding seniors in the Law
School. He is a member of Ph1 Beta Kappa and the Order of
the Coif. He was Associate Editor of the Michigan Law Review
in 1953-54. In 1964 Belin served as Assistant Counsel with
the President's Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy (Warren Commission). Belin is the author of
November 22, 1963: You Are The Jury. He lives with his wife
and their five children in Des Moines. Mr. Belin's appoint-
ment as Executive Director of the Commission was announced
by the White House January 16.
Harold Baker, 45, Senior Counsel. Mr. Baker is a partner
in the Champaign, Illinois, law firm of Hatch, Corazza,
Baker & Jensen. He is a graduate of the University of
Illinois, 1951, and the University of Illinois Law School,
1956. At the present time in addition to his law practice,
he is a lecturer in Advocacy at the University of Illinois
Law School. Mr. Baker is a member of the Order of the Coif
and he is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
He and his wife live with their three children in Champaign,
Illinois.
Ernest Gellhorn, 39, Senior Counsel. He has been Professor
of Law at the University of Virginia Law School since 1970.
He graduated in 1956 from the University of Minnesota where
he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a magna cum laude
graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School (1962)
where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was
Note Editor of the Minnesota Law Review in 1961-62. He
is the author of Administrative Law and Process and the
co-author of the Administrative Process. Mr. Gellhorn lives
with his wife and their two children in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
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Robert B. 01sen, 48, Senior Counsel. He is the senior
partner of the Kansas City, Missouri, law firm of Olsen,
Talpers and Welte and has been practicing law in Kansas
City since 1955. He graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1952 and from the University of Michigan Law
School in 1955, where he served as Editor in Chief of the
Michigan Law Review. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and the Order of the Coif. He has served on Boards of
Directors of the Legal Aid and Defender Society of Greater
Kansas City, the American Civil Liberties Union (Western
Missouri Division), and the Family and children Services of
Kansas City. Mr. 01sen, his wife and their four children
live in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas.
William W. Schwarzer, 49, Senior Counsel. He is a member
of the San Francisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown
and Enersen. He has been engaged primarily in trial practice
and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Schwarzer graduated cum laude from the University of
Southern California in 1948 and cum laude from Harvard Law
School in 1951. He was a teaching fellow at the Harvard
Law School prior to entering private practice. He is a
trustee of the World Affairs Council of Northern California
and the former Chairman of the Marin County Aviation Com-
mission. During World War II he served in military intelligence.
He lives with his wife and two children in Mill Valley,
California.
Marvin L. Gray, Jr., 29, Counsel. Mr. Gray has been Assistant
United States Attorney, Seattle, Washington, since 1973.
He is a 1966 graduate of Princeton University and a 1969
magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he
was the Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review. From
1969-70 he served as Law Clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly
and from 1970-71 he served as Law Clerk to Justice John M.
Harlan of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Gray is
married and lives with his wife and their child in Seattle.
George A. Manfredi, 31, Counsel. He is a partner in the Los
Angeles law firm of Costello, Manfredi & Thorpe. He is a
cum laude graduate of Brown University and graduated from
the New York University School of Law in 1969 where he was
a member of the Order of the Coif and Managing Editor of the
New York University Law Review. Mr. Manfredi and his wife
reside with their two children in Palos Verdes Estates,
California.
James N. Roethe, 33, Counsel. He is associated with the
San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro.
Mr. Roethe is a native of Wisconsin, graduated from the
University of Wisconsin in 1964 and from the University
of Wisconsin Law School in 1967, where he was second in
his class. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law
Review dr 1966-67 -and is a member of the Order of the Coif.
Mr. Roethe and his wife reside with their two children in
Orinda, California.
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James Burton Weidner, 32, Counsel. He is a partner in
the New York City law firm of Rogers & Wells. He is a
graduate of Bowdoin College, 1964, and the Cornell Law
School, 1967, where he was a winner of the first year
and second year Moot Court Competitions and a finalist
in the third year Moot Court Competition. He joined his
present firm in 1967 and has been engaged primarily in
trial practice. Mr. Weidner and his wife reside in New
York City.
Ronald J. Greene, 32, Special Counsel. He is an attorney
with the Washington, D. C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler,
and Pickering. Mr. Greene was graduated summa cum laude
from Harvard Law School in 1968, where he received the Fay
Diploma and Sears Prize for ranking first in his class.
He also served as Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1964, magna cum
laude, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1968
and 1969, he was a law clerk to Mr. Justice Thurgood
Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is married and
lives with his wife and their two children in Falls Church,
Virginia.
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