Nick Katzenbach was IBM's senior vice president, law
and external relations in the 1980s.
The following is the text of a corporate biography
published in March 1985.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach was elected vice president
and general counsel of International Business Machines
Corporation in January 1969. He was elected a director
in November 1970 and a senior vice president in June
1979. He was named a member of the Corporate Management
Board in March 1983. He was named senior vice president,
law and external relations in March 1985.
Mr. Katzenbach was formerly U.S. Under Secretary of
State, a post he was appointed to in 1966. Previously
he had been U.S. Attorney General from 1965 to 1966;
Acting Attorney General in 1964; Deputy Attorney General
from 1962 to 1964; and Assistant Attorney General from
1961 to 1962.
Before joining the Justice Department, Mr. Katzenbach
was a professor of law at the University of Chicago
from 1956 to 1960, and an associate professor at the
Yale Law School from 1952 to 1956.
Mr. Katzenbach graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy
and enrolled at Princeton University, but left to join
the Army Air Force during World War II. Returning to
Princeton after the war, he completed his studies and
later received an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School.
He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University
from 1947 to 1949.
In 1950, Mr. Katzenbach entered private law practice
in Trenton, N.J. He later went to the Pentagon to serve
as attorney-advisor and consultant in the Office of
the General Counsel to the Secretary of the Air Force.
Mr. Katzenbach is a member of the American Law Institute,
the American Bar Association and the American Judicature
Society.
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