THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                           (Istanbul, Turkey)

              PRESIDENT CLINTON NOMINATES RHONDA C. FIELDS
                          TO THE FEDERAL BENCH

     The President today nominated Rhonda C. Fields to the U.S. District

Court for the District of Columbia.

Rhonda C. Fields, of the District of Columbia, has served as the Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia since 1997. Prior to serving as Chief of the Criminal Division, Fields served as Chief of the Economic Crimes Section (1989-1997) and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (1985-1989) in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. From 1982 to 1985, Fields served as both a Trial Attorney and the Litigation Branch Chief in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1980 to 1982, she served in the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Labor as the Director of the New York Region. Fields, from 1977 to 1980, was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, and from 1974 to 1977, was a Special Attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1973, Fields was a Staff Attorney in the Special Operations Unit of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. She received her B.A. in 1970 from New York University and her J.D. in 1973 from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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