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Release Date: 03/11/2005
Release Number: 05-387-SEA
Contact Name: Michael Shimizu
Phone Number: 206.553.7620
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San Francisco, California - Francis Clisham has
been named regional director of the San Francisco Office of the Employee
Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the U.S. Department of Labor
announced today. |
A
native of St. Louis, Missouri, Clisham will manage a staff of sixty-five
investigators, benefit advisors and support staff personnel, including
twenty-five in EBSA’s Seattle District Office. EBSA enforces the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal pension law
that sets minimum standards for private-sector pension and health plans
and protects the benefits of workers in these plans. |
A
career civil servant since 1962, Clisham began his federal service with
the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. He later joined the
Civil Service Commission in St. Louis as an investigator where he was
detailed on numerous occasions to the Department of Justice in conjunction
with the Voter Rights Act at polling sites in Mississippi and Alabama. |
In
1970, he joined the Labor Department as an investigator and served on the
Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Strike Force in St. Louis.
Shortly after passage of ERISA in 1974, he was named district supervisor
for the St. Louis EBSA Office and in 1991, he was selected to be the first
criminal program manager for the agency in Washington, D.C. |
Clisham served in this capacity until 2000 when he was
appointed regional director in the New York EBSA Office. While regional
director in New York, he oversaw the rebuilding of the New York Office
following its destruction in the terrorist attach of September 11, 2001. |
A
graduate of St. Louis University with an undergraduate degree in political
science, Clisham attended the Georgetown University Graduate School where
he majored in government. |
Among
his numerous awards are the department’s Distinguished Career Service
Award (1983); the Elliot Daniel Manager of the Year Award (1990); and the
Attorney General’s Special Initiative Award for his contributions in
pursuing pension and health plan fraud (1997). |
Clisham
is married and has four children and five grandchildren. |
Note
to editors: Clisham can be reached at 415-975-4600. |
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