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From Mail-Server@lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu Sat Aug 7 22:23:27 1993
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 21:40-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: President Names U. S. Attorneys in 6 States 8/7/93
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release August 6, 1993
PRESIDENT NAMES U.S. ATTORNEYS IN SIX STATES
The President named his choices for seven U.S. Attorney
positions today, announcing his intention to nominate the
following:
Lynne Ann Battaglia, District of Maryland
Paula Jean Casey, Eastern District of Arkansas
Paul K. Holmes, Western District of Arkansas
Paul Coggins, Northern District of Texas
Scott M. Matheson, District of Utah
J. Preston Strom, Jr., District of South Carolina
Robert P. Crouch, Jr., Western District of Virginia
Lynne Ann Battaglia is currently the Chief of Staff to U.S.
Senator Barbara Mikulski, a position she has held since November,
1991. Prior to joining Senator Mikulski's staff, she was Chief
of the Criminal Investigations Division in the Office of the
Attorney General of Maryland for three years. From 1984-87, she
served at the U.S. Department of Justice as Senior Trial Attorney
in the Office of Special Litigation. She has also served as a
consultant to the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney for Maryland, and as an Associate in the
firm of Semmes, Bowen & Semmes.
Paula Jean Casey is a professor of law at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where she was formerly
Associate Dean, and is a Lobbyist for the Arkansas Bar
Association. From 1990-92, she was Chief Counsel and Legislative
Director to U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers. She began her legal
career as a staff attorney for Central Arkansas Legal Services,
and was later Deputy Public Defender for Arkansas' Sixth Judicial
District.
Paul K. Holmes is a partner in the Fort Smith law firm of
Warner and Smith, where he has worked since 1978, focusing on
environmental law, oil and gas, and litigation. He has been
active in the American Bar Association and Arkansas Bar
Association, serving as Chairman of the state bar's Natural
Resources Law Section and as President-elect of the Sebastian
County Bar Association.
Paul Coggins, a partner at the Dallas firm of Meadows,
Owens, Collier, Reed & Coggins, was appointed Special Assistant
Attorney General of Texas in 1991 to handle two sensative civil
cases. From 1980-83, he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the
Northern District, which emphasis on prosecuting white-collar
cases and drug crimes, and he subsequently worked for the firm of
Johnson & Gibbs. He began his career as a law clerk to Justice
Christopher Armstrong of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.
Scott M. Matheson is a law professor at the University of
Utah, where he has taught since 1985. During that time, he has
also been a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government, and Deputy County Attorney for Salt Lake County.
During the early '80s, he was an associate at the Washington, DC
law firm of Williams & Connelly. He was campaign manager of two
successful gubernatorial campaigns in Utah, and served in 1974 as
Chief Legislative Assistant to Utah Congressman Wayne Owens.
J. Preston Strom, Jr. is a criminal trial lawyer with the
law firm of Bolt, Popowski, McCullock & Strom in Columbia, SC.
He has previously worked with several other local fims, and was
Assisstant Solicitor in the Fifth Judicial Circuit from 1984-87.
After graduating from law school in 1985, Strom became a law
clerk to South Carolina Cricuit Judge Frank Eppes.
Robert P. Crouch, Jr. is a partner in the Martinsville, VA
firm of Young, Haskins, Mann & Gregory, with a general practice
including civil and criminal trial work.
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