FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	AG

MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1998	                                                                                                                         (202) 514-2008

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STAFF CHANGES AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT





	WASHINGTON, D.C.-- John M. Hogan, Chief of Staff to Attorney
General Janet Reno, will be leaving the Department of Justice to
join the Miami office of Holland & Knight as a partner.  He will
begin practice with the firm on July 1.  Before serving as Chief
of Staff, Hogan served as Assistant Deputy Attorney General,
acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and
counselor to the Attorney General.  Hogan, who worked for Reno in
Florida, is expected to leave in May.




	Kent Markus, Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the
Attorney General for Youth Violence, will be leaving the
Department to become a Visiting Professor of Law at Capital
University in his home state of Ohio.   Markus previously served
as the first Director of the Community Oriented Policing Services
office and as Acting Assistant Attorney General for Legislative
Affairs at the Justice Department.  A former Chief of Staff at
the Democratic National Committee, Markus is expected to leave in
August.




	David W. Ogden will succeed Hogan as Chief of Staff.
Currently serving as Counselor to the Attorney General, Ogden
served previously as Associate Deputy Attorney General and as
Deputy General Counsel and Legal Counsel at the Department of
Defense.  Ogden, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry
Blackmun, is a former partner in the D.C. office of Jenner &
Block.




	Ann M. Harkins, currently Principal Deputy Assistant
Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, will become Deputy
Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Attorney General.  Harkins,
longtime Chief Counsel to Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Judiciary
Committee, began her legal career in the D.C. office of Davis
Polk & Wardwell. 




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