COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman
JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia
CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island
EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin
WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota
THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri
ALAN CRANSTON, California
HAROLD E. HUGHES, Iowa
ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois
JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado
RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania
BOB PACKWOOD, Oregon
ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio
J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland
ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont
STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staff Director
ROBERT E. NAGLE, General Counsel
ROY H. MILLENSON, Minority Staff Director
EUGENE MITTELMAN, Minority Counsel
COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE,
Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:35 a.m., Senator Harrison A. Williams (chairman) presiding.
Present: Senators Williams, Randolph, Javits, and Mondale.
Also present: Senator Charles Percy of Illinois.
Committee staff present: Stewart E. McClure, staff director;
Robert E. Nagle, general counsel; and Eugene Mittelman, minority
The CHAIRMAN. The committee on Labor and Public Welfare is meeting this morning to consider the nomination of Mr. William A. Carey to be General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This position was created by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. In view of the great involvement of members of this committee in that legislation, we are naturally most interested in the person who will be filling this key position.
Mr. Carey comes to us from Chicago, Ill., where he has been in private law practice since 1961. Prior to that, he served with the Justice Department for several years.
A copy of Mr. Carey's biography will be included in our hearing record at this point.
(The biography of Mr. Carey, and an excerpt from Public Law 92-261, authorizing the Office of General Counsel follow:)
Age: 39 years (May 16, 1932)
Birthplace: Chicago (moved to Massachusetts at early age)
Marital Status: Married, three children
Boston College (1950-1954):
Received B.S. in Business Administration in 1954.
(a) Boston College Law School (1954-57):
Graduated in 1957 with LL.B. degree; honor student; member of the law review for 2 years; first year class president; member of the Board of Governors of the Student Bar Association;
Georgetown University Law Center (1957-58):
Attended evening division and received LL.M.
degree in 1958.
Admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1957 and in
Illinois in 1961. Member Massachusetts and Chicago
Bar Associations.
(a) Justice Department, Washington, D.C.
October 1958):
Appointed Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, in June 1957. This appointment was made under the Attorney General's Recruitment Program for Honor Law Graduates. Under this
program about 60 honor law graduates were
selected each year from nearly 1000 applicants.
Assigned major responsibility for obtaining
indictments in national security cases growing
out of Cuban revolution, e.g., United States
v. Carlos Prio, et al. (deposed President of
Cuba conspiring to violate Neutrality Act), and
United States v. Bachman (gun dealer shipping
unregistered sub-machine guns to Cuba).
Justice Department, Chicago, Illinois (October 1958-
February 1961):
Commissioned Special Attorney in October 1958 (at
age 26) and assigned to Chicago to serve as the
Deputy Chief of the Midwest Office of the Attorney
General's Special Group on Organized Crime.
Served until February 1961 under (Governor)
Richard B. Ogilvie and acted as his chief trial
assistant, e.g., United States v. Anthony J. Accardo
(income tax fraud) and United States v. Joseph Bronge
(perjury case in which the defendant was assassinated
by unknown gunmen prior to his trial). Devised
the legal theory and obtained the indictments in two
leading perjury cases arising out of the Accardo
trial: United States v. Nicoletti and United States
V. Letchos. Assisted in the trial preparation of
United States v. Bonanno, et al. (case involving
the notorious Apalachin, New York crime syndicate
meeting).
(c) Private Practice (February 1961
Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle. Former hiring
partner and partner in charge of the associate
lawyers. Specialty is major litigation, e.g.,
Dearborn Glass Co. v. Corning Glass Works (success-
fully represented plaintiff in antitrust treble
damage action involving the color television
picture tube industry); Florists' Nationwide
Telephone Delivery Network v. Florists Telegraph
Delivery Association (successfully represented
defendant in antitrust treble damage action in-
volving the flowers-by-wire industry); Boese, et al.
v. Randolph-Wells Building Corporation and LaSalle
National Bank (successfully represented LaSalle
National Bank in a suit involving the fiduciary
obligations of banks acting as indenture trustees).
Presently the partner jointly responsible (with
Donald Page Moore) for all firm fraud litigation
on behalf of Federal Savings And Loan Insurance
Corporation (a government agency) arising out of
the liquidation of defunct savings and loan associa-
tions in the Chicago area, e.g., Federal Savings And
Loan Insurance Corporation v. William Szarabajka,
Joseph Nowak, et al. (the fraud and conspiracy
complaint alleged a $93,000 cash bribe to induce
the granting of a $3,100,000 construction loan by
Service Savings And Loan Association); Federal
Savings And Loan Insurance Corporation v. Paul Newber
Sam Mercurio and James B. Wilson, (alleged use of
insured funds to obtain personal loans Service
Savings And Loan Association); Federal Savings And
Loan Insurance Corporation v. Henry Krueger, William
Randall, et al. (the complaint alleges fraud and
conspiracy in the granting of more than $10,000,000
in construction loans by Lawn Savings and Loan
Association); Federal Savings And Loan Insurance
Corporation v. Edward Kelly, et al. (fraud and
conspiracy complaint involving the collapse of
Apollo Savings).
(a) Teaching Experience (1960-65):
Part-time member of the faculty of Loyola University
Law School; taught equity course.
SIGNIFICANT CIVIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:
Member of the Evanston Human Relations Commission, 1967 through 1969. Only member of five appointed during 1967 to receive the unanimous approval of the Evanston City Council. Drafted the new rules for the Commission when it was reorganized during 1968. Member of the Evanston Fair Housing Review Board 1967-1968.
Member of the United Republican Fund - 500 Club from
its inception to present; Vice-President Evanston
Republican Club 1963 to 1971; Ward Chairman,
1963-68, and precinct captain, 1963 to 1971;
for the Evanston Regular Republican Organization:
member of the Evanston Young Republican Club, 1962
to present (political affairs Vice-President 1963-64)
Evanston Campaign Co-Chairman for Charles I. Percy,
1964; 13th Congressional District Campaign Chairman
for Richard B. Ogilvie, 1962.
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