FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                         OLA
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1995                               (202) 616-2765
                                               TDD (202) 514-1888

                                 
        ANDREW FOIS WILL BE NOMIATED BY PRESIDENT TO HEAD
      DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE'S OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Clinton announced today he
intends to nominate Andrew Fois, an Associate Deputy Attorney
General at the Department of Justice, as Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Department's Office of Legislative
Affairs.  
     Fois, whose government and public service career centered on
criminal justice matters, has worked at the Department for the
past 14 months as an advisor to the Attorney General and to the
Deputy Attorney General.
     In those positions, Fois was involved in a broad range of
criminal justice policy and legislative matters, including
passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of
1994.  
     "Andrew Fois brings invaluable experience to the Department
of Justice," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "He has prosecuted
criminal cases, helped draft criminal justice legislation, and
worked to transform those proposals into law." 
     Before joining the Department in 1994, Fois was chief
counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime
and Criminal Justice.  In that role, Fois worked on several major
criminal justice initiatives, including the Brady law and the
crime bills for 1990, 1991 and 1993.
     Fois came to the subcommittee in 1989 after serving more
than four years in the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington,
D.C., including one year in a supervisory role as Deputy Chief of
the Misdemeanor Trial Division.  
     Fois became an assistant state attorney in Dade County,
Florida, after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center
in 1983.  He graduated cum laude from Georgetown University in
1979 and also attended the University of Essex and University of
London, both in Great Britain.
     Currently, Fois is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown
University Law Center, a position he assumed in 1990.  He also
was an adjunct professor at Washington College of Law from 1989
through 1991.
     Fois, who was born and raised in New York City and Long
Island, New York, has a home in Washington, D.C., with his wife,
the former Sonia Turcotte of Auburn, Maine.
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