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Digitized from Box 16 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 19, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Karl
E. Bakke, of Falls Church, Virginia, to be a Federal Maritime
Commissioner for the term expiring June 30, 1980. He will
succeed Helen Delich Bentley whose term has expired. Upon
confirmation by the Senate, the President will designate Mr. Bakke
as Chairman of the Commission.
Since August 9, 1973, Mr. Bakke has served as General Counsel
of the Department of Commerce and has been with the Commerce
Department since 1968. From 1971 to 1973 he was Deputy General
Counsel; from 1970 to 1971 he was Chief Counsel of the Office of
Direct Foreign Investments and had been Deputy Chief Counsel of
the Office of Direct Foreign Investments from 1969 to 1970.
Mr. Bakke joined the Government in 1960 as an attorney-adviser
in the Office of the General Counsel of the United States Tariff
Commission. In 1962 he became a Senior Attorney with the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and in 1964
he was named Assistant Secretary of the Federal Reserve Board.
Mr. Bakke was born on July 3, 1930, in New Haven, Connecticut.
He received his B.A. with honors, from Yale University in 1951
and his J.D. in 1957 from Georgetown University, where he was
editor of the Georgetown Law Review. From 1951 to 1957 Mr.
Bakke held various staff positions with the C&P Telephone Co.,
in Washington, D. C., and from 1957 to 1960 he was in the private
practice of law in Washington.
He is married to the former Anne-Rosseau Holbein of Bronxville,
New York. They have four children and reside in Falls Church,
Virginia.
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