November 19, 1982
The President today granted a recess appointment to Jean Broward Shevlin Gerard to be the
Representative of the United States of America to the General Conference of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
She has been an attorney with the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City
since 1977. She graduated from Vassar College (A.B., 1959) and Fordham University School of
Law (J.D., 1977). She was editor of the Fordham International Law Forum. Her foreign
languages are French, German, and Italian.
She is married, has two children, and resides in New York, N.Y. She was born March 9,
1938.
Recess Appointment of James Daniel Phillips as United States Alternate Representative to the
General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
November 19, 1982
The President today granted a recess appointment to James Daniel Phillips to be the Alternate
Representative of the United States of America to the General Conference of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
He is currently serving as Office Director for Communications and UNESCO Affairs at the
Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Mr. Phillips entered the Foreign Service in 1961 and
has served in France, Zaire, Luxembourg, and Gambia as well as in the Department of State in
Washington. In 1980 he served as a political adviser and member of the U.S. Delegation to the
United Nations Conference on Women in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He graduated from the University of Kansas at Wichita (B.A., 1957; M.A., 1958). His foreign
languages are French and German. He resides in Washington, D.C., and was born February 23,
1933.