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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Wed May 5 23:41:05 1993
Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 19:30-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org,
Subject: President Names Hayashi to Civil Rightd Post at HHS
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 5, 1993
PRESIDENT NAMES HAYASHI FOR CIVIL RIGHTS POST AT HHS
(Washington, DC) The President announced today the appointment
of Asian-American civil rights attorney Dennis Hayashi to be
Director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office
of Civil Rights.
"Dennis Hayashi has had a distinguished career of both legal
and public advocacy for equal rights," said the President. "I am
counting on him to continue his good work as part of Secretary
Shalala's team at HHS. We need to continue to work for fair
treatment for all Americans."
Hayashi, who served as part of the Clinton/Gore Transition's
civil rights cluster, is the National Director of the Japanese
American Citizens League, the largest and oldest Asian Pacific
American civil rights organization in the country. He previously
worked for more than a decade as an attorney for the Asian Law
Caucus, Inc., where he oversaw litigation of major impact cases
and directed legislative advocacy on both the federal and state
levels. Hayashi has also been Associate Grievance Director for a
San Francisco local of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International Union, an instructor a the New College of
California Law School, and Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge
Robert Takasugi.
A graduate of Occidental College and the Hastings College of
the Law, Hayashi has also published articles in the Yale Law
School Journal of International Law and the Kennedy School of
Government's Asian American Policy Review, as well as in the
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and
other newspapers. He lives in Oakland, California.
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