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. ##### 95-281