July 28, 1983
The President today announced his intention to appoint the following individuals to be members
of the President's Commission on Organized Crime. The President also announced his intention to
designate Irving R. Kaufman to be Chairman.
Irving R. Kaufman, of New York, N.Y., has been serving as Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1961 and served as chief judge in 1973 - 1980. He was judge
on the Southern District Court of New York in 1949 - 1961. He was born June 24, 1910.
Phyllis Teresa Aranza, of Houston, Tex., is a lieutenant with the homicide division of the Houston
Police Department. She is pursuing a masters degree in criminal justice at Sam Houston State
University. She was born September 23, 1945.
Jesse A. Brewer, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif., has been a member of the Los Angeles Police
Department since 1947 and its deputy chief since 1981, with responsibility for supervision of
numerous major crimes investigations. He was a member of the Task Force on Disorders and
Terrorism of the National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, named
by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (1976). He was born October 11, 1921.
Carol Corrigan, of Oakland, Calif., is a deputy district attorney assigned to the senior felony staff
for Alameda County and an assistant professor of law at the University of California Hastings
College of Law. She served as special consultant and staff editor to the Presidential Task Force
on Victims of Violent Crime in 1982 and has authored a number of publications relating to
criminal law issues. She was born August 16, 1948.
Justin J. Dintino, of Hilltop, N.J., is executive officer of the New Jersey State Police Department.
He is general chairman of the law enforcement intelligence unit and serves on the Organized
Crime Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the policy board of the
Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes State Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network. He was born
October 30, 1928.
John F. Duffy, of San Diego, Calif., has been sheriff of San Diego County since 1970, having
previously held various positions in the Sheriff's Department since 1953. He is president of the
Police Executive Research Forum and serves on the board of directors of the National Sheriffs
Association and on the board of directors of the National Institute of Justice. He was born June
10, 1930.
William J. Guste, Jr., of New Orleans, La., is attorney general of Louisiana. He has been a
member of the Governor's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice
since 1974. He served as a member and president of the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime
Commission in 1956 - 1957 and as a member and chairman of the Juvenile Court Advisory
Committee of Orleans Parish in 1961 - 1963. He was born May 26, 1922.
Judith Richards Hope, of the District of Columbia, is a partner in the law firm of Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky, and Walker. She was associate director of the White House Domestic Council in 1975 -
1977. She was born November 30, 1940.
Phillip Manuel, of Alexandria, Va., is president of the Phillip Manuel Resource Group, a
consulting firm that assists corporate clients and law firms with investigations involving economic
crimes. He was chief investigator of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations in 1968 - 1979.
He was born November 9, 1936.
Thomas McBride, of California, is associate dean of the Stanford University Law School. He was
an Associate Watergate Special Prosecutor in 1973 - 1975 and later served as Inspector General
of the Departments of Labor and Agriculture. He was born February 8, 1929.
Eugene Methvin, of McLean, Va., is a senior editor of Readers Digest. He has written about
crime and the law for more than 30 years and contributed to the passage of the Organized Crime
Control Act of 1970. He was born September 19, 1934.
Edwin L. Miller, Jr., of La Jolla, Calif., is a district attorney for San Diego County and will
assume the presidency of the National Association for District Attorneys in August. He is past
president of the California Association of District Attorneys and was U.S. attorney for the
Southern District of California in 1966 - 1969. He was born January 17, 1926.
Manuel J. Reyes, of Miami, Fla., is an attorney and executive vice president of the board of
directors of Miami International Hospital. He also served as chairman of the Hispanic branch of
the Miami Organized Crime Commission, and as a leader of the Hispanic community, he
mobilized citizen groups to press for crackdowns on the influx of illegal drugs into the Miami
area. He was born July 29, 1924.
Representative Peter W. Rodino, Jr., of New Jersey, is chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee. He was born June 7, 1909.
Charles H. Rogovin, of Philadelphia, Pa., is a professor of law at Temple University. He was
president of the Criminal Justice Associates in 1974 - 1977 and president of the Police Foundation
in 1970 - 1972. In 1974 - 1976 he was a member of the Massachusetts Organized Crime Control
Council. He headed the Organized Crime Committee of the Criminal Law Section of the
American Bar Association in 1971 - 1972 and was Administrator of the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration in 1969 - 1970. He was born January 24, 1931.
Barbara Ann Rowan, of Manassas, Va., is a lawyer with Rowan Associates and was formerly an
Assistant Director with the Federal Trade Commission. She served as staff attorney for the House
Ethics Committee's Korean influence-buying investigation in 1977 - 1978 and was a staff attorney
with the Legal Services Corporation and an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of
New York in 1971 - 1974. She was born September 6, 1938.
Frances A. Sclafani, of West Islip, N.Y., is presently deputy chief of the major offense bureau of
the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and the first woman to hold this position. She is also
associate director of the National District Attorney's Association. She was born August 25,
1949.
Samuel K. Skinner, of Lake Forest, Ill., is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Sidley and Austin.
He was chairman of the Governor's Fraud Prevention Commission in 1977 - 1979. He was U.S.
attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, overseeing major organized crime investigations in
the area. He was assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District in 1968 - 1975. He was born
June 10, 1938.
Potter Stewart, of the District of Columbia. Justice Stewart was an associate justice of the
Supreme Court from 1958 until his retirement in 1981. He was born January 23, 1915.
Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Senator Thurmond is chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee. He was born December 5, 1902.