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ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO ANNOUNCES NEW

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Janet Reno has appointed Mark T. Calloway, United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, as the new Chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys. The Advisory Committee, created in 1973, advises the Attorney General on law enforcement matters and gives the United States Attorneys a key voice in Department policy.

Calloway, who has served as Co-chair of the Advisory Committee's White Collar Crime Subcommittee, has been very active in the Department's white collar crime efforts and serves on the Department's White Collar Crime Council. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee's Investigation and Intelligence Subcommittee and Ethics In Government Subcommittee.

"Mark's extensive experience in combating white collar crime is very impressive," said Reno. "That experience, along with his impressive tenure as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, makes him a perfect choice to lead the Advisory Committee into the next millennium."

Calloway was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina in February 1994.

In June, 1996, Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., appointed Calloway to his "Task Force on Racial or Religious Violence and Intimidation." That Task Force dealt with the various issues facing North Carolina in the wake of a series of church burnings.

Calloway served in 1998-99 as Chair of the Criminal Justice Section Council of the North Carolina Bar Association, and currently serves as an Advisor to the Ethics Committee of the North Carolina State Bar. He is also a regular lecturer at the U.S. Justice Department National Advocacy Center's management seminars.

A list of the full Committee follows:

Mark T. Calloway, Chair, Western District of North Carolina

Paul E. Coggins, Jr., Vice Chair, Northern District of Texas

Lynne A. Battaglia, District of Maryland

Robert P. Crouch, Jr., Western District of Virginia

Saul A. Green, Eastern District of Michigan

Stephen L. Hill, Jr., Western District of Missouri

Faith S. Hochberg, District of New Jersey

P.K. Holmes, III, Western District of Arkansas

Walter C. Holton, Jr., Middle District of North Carolina

B. Todd Jones, District of Minnesota

Eddie J. Jordan, Jr., Eastern District of Louisiana

John J. Kelly, District of New Mexico

Beverly Baldwin Martin, Middle District of Georgia

Katrina C. Pflaumer, Western District of Washington

Thomas E. Scott, Southern District of Florida

Judith A. Stewart, Southern District of Indiana

Emily M. Sweeney, Northern District of Ohio

Charles R. Tetzlaff, District of Vermont

Donald K. Stern, Chair, District of Massachusetts, ex officio

Wilma A. Lewis, District of Columbia, ex officio

Janet Craig, Southern District of Texas, ad hoc

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