Background
MALONE, JAMES was born on December 22, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
MALONE, JAMES was born on December 22, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Pomona College (Bachelor of Arts, 1953). Stanford Law School (Juris Doctor, 1959). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Assistant Dean and Lecturer-in-Law, University of California School of Law, Los Angeles, 1961- 1967.
Dean-Elect and Professor of Law, College of Law, Willamette Federal Maritime Commission, 1970-1971. Assistant General Counsel, United States.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1971-1973. General Counsel, United States.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1973-1976.
United States. Representative, Conference, Committee on Disarmament with Personal rank of Ambassador, 1976-1977. Attorney, Doub and Muntzing, Chartered, Washington, District of Columbia, 1978-1981.
Acting Director, United States.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1981. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 1981-1985. Special Representative of the President of the United States for the Law of the Sea with personal rank of Ambassador, 1981-1985.
Incumbent, Navy Chair of International Law, Naval Postgraduate School, 1987-1988.
He worked as an instructor at the United States Army Infantry School with the rank of First Lieutenant in the United States Army from May 1954 to March 1956. in 1959. Malone joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 1961 as assistant dean and lecturer-in-law. He taught there until 1967, when he was hired as a dean at the Willamette University College of Law.
He spent 1969 as a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
Malone was then the principal trial attorney of the United States Federal Maritime Commission 1970-1971. From 1971 to 1973, he was Assistant General Counsel of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and then its General Counsel from 1973 to 1976.
In 1976, President of the United States Gerald Ford named Malone Ambassador and United States. Representative to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament. In 1978, he joined Doub & Muntzing, a law firm located in Washington, District of Columbia In February 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated Malone to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
After Senate confirmation, Malone held this office from June 1981 to July 1985.
State Bar of California. The District of Columbia Bar. American Bar Association.