May 4, 1983
The President today announced his intention to nominate D. Lowell Jensen to be Associate
Attorney General, Department of Justice. He would succeed Rudolph Giuliani.
Mr. Jensen is presently serving as Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice. Previously he was district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., in 1969 - 1980; assistant
district attorney of Alameda County in 1966 - 1969; and deputy district attorney of Alameda
County in 1955 - 1966. He served as president of the California District Attorneys Association in
1979 - 1980; member of the board of directors of the California Crime Technological Research
Foundation in 1970 - 1974; and chairman of the California Peace Officers Association's law and
legislative committee in 1969 - 1977.
He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley (A.B., 1949) and the University of
California School of Law, Boalt (LL.B., 1952). He is married, has three children, and resides in
Arlington, Va. He was born June 3, 1928, in Brigham, Utah.