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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release September 29, 1999

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES RONNIE FERN LIEBOWITZ TO BE A MEMBER OF THE U.S.

NAVAL ACADEMY BOARD OF VISITORS

President Clinton today announced his intent to appoint Ronnie Fern Liebowitz to be a member of the U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors.

Ms. Ronnie Fern Liebowitz, of Watchung, New Jersey is currently a Partner of the Law firm Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein & Siegal. Previously, she was the University Counsel of Rutgers University and an Associate at Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch, Esqs. Ms. Liebowitz has been the President of the Presidential Scholars Foundation and Commissioner of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars since 1993. She has also been a Secretary of the Navy appointee to two Special Committees of the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy in 1993 and 1997. In 1996 Ms. Liebowitz was appointed to the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School. Ms. Liebowitz has been admitted to the Bars of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Ms. Liebowitz received her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers, The State University in 1972 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1976.

The Board of Visitors to the U S Naval Academy visits the Academy annually to inquire into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters relating to the Academy that the Board decides to consider.

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