December 17, 1984
The President today announced his intention to accord the personal rank of Ambassador to
Donald S. Lowitz, of Illinois, in his capacity as United States Representative to the Conference on
Disarmament.
Mr. Lowitz has been engaged in the private practice of law in Chicago, IL, since 1952 and was a
partner in his last firm of Aaron, Schimberg, Hess, and Gilbert in 1974 - 1984. He served as
Assistant United States Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Illinois in Chicago in 1954 - 1959 and was General Counsel of the Office of Economic
Opportunity in Washington, DC, in 1969 - 1971. In 1972 - 1978 he was a member and then
Chairman of the Board of Foreign Scholarships and served as a consultant with the Executive
Office of the President (1974 - 1975) and with the Department of Defense (1975). Since 1984 he
has been United States Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, United States Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, in Washington, DC.
Mr. Lowitz received a bachelor of legal science in 1950 from the Northwestern University School
of Commerce and his J.D. in 1952 from the Northwestern University School of Law. He was born
April 16, 1929, in Chicago, IL.