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Frank S. Holleman III

CHIEF OF STAFF, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

A native of Seneca, South Carolina, Frank is Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley. Prior to joining the Education Department in September 1994, Frank was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, supervising the Offices of Immigration Litigation and Consumer Litigation.

Before joining the Administration in August of 1993, Frank practiced law as a member of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham in Greenville, S.C., primarily in the area of civil litigation. In South Carolina, he served as Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and member of the Democratic National Committee (1988-1990).

Frank clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court (1981-1982) and Judge Harrison Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1979-1980). Frank is a graduate of Furman University (B.A. Magna Cum Laude, 1976); Harvard Law School (J.D. Magna Cum Laude, 1979); and the London School of Economics (M.Sc., 1981). At Furman, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Ulmer Political Science Medal; at Harvard, he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and received a Knox Fellowship for study in the United Kingdom.