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Subject: President Names U. S. Attorneys in 6 States  8/7/93

                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

                                                                   
For Immediate Release                             August 6, 1993

           PRESIDENT NAMES U.S. ATTORNEYS IN SIX STATES

     The President named his choices for seven U.S. Attorney 
positions today, announcing his intention to nominate the 
following:

     	  Lynne Ann Battaglia, District of Maryland
     	  Paula Jean Casey, Eastern District of Arkansas
     	  Paul K. Holmes, Western District of Arkansas
     	  Paul Coggins, Northern District of Texas
     	  Scott M. Matheson, District of Utah
     	  J. Preston Strom, Jr., District of South Carolina
     	  Robert P. Crouch, Jr., Western District of Virginia

     Lynne Ann Battaglia is currently the Chief of Staff to U.S. 
Senator Barbara Mikulski, a position she has held since November, 
1991.  Prior to joining Senator Mikulski's staff, she was Chief 
of the Criminal Investigations Division in the Office of the 
Attorney General of Maryland for three years.  From 1984-87, she 
served at the U.S. Department of Justice as Senior Trial Attorney 
in the Office of Special Litigation.  She has also served as a 
consultant to the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, as an 
Assistant U.S. Attorney for Maryland, and as an Associate in the 
firm of Semmes, Bowen & Semmes.  

     Paula Jean Casey is a professor of law at the University of 
Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where she was formerly 
Associate Dean, and is a Lobbyist for the Arkansas Bar 
Association.  From 1990-92, she was Chief Counsel and Legislative 
Director to U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers.  She began her legal 
career as a staff attorney for Central Arkansas Legal Services, 
and was later Deputy Public Defender for Arkansas' Sixth Judicial 
District.

     Paul K. Holmes is a partner in the Fort Smith law firm of 
Warner and Smith, where he has worked since 1978, focusing on 
environmental law, oil and gas, and litigation.  He has been 
active in the American Bar Association and Arkansas Bar 
Association, serving as Chairman of the state bar's Natural 
Resources Law Section and as President-elect of the Sebastian 
County Bar Association.

     Paul Coggins, a partner at the Dallas firm of Meadows, 
Owens, Collier, Reed & Coggins, was appointed Special Assistant 
Attorney General of Texas in 1991 to handle two sensative civil 
cases.  From 1980-83, he was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the 
Northern District, which emphasis on prosecuting white-collar 
cases and drug crimes, and he subsequently worked for the firm of 
Johnson & Gibbs.  He began his career as a law clerk to Justice 
Christopher Armstrong of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.

     Scott M. Matheson is a law professor at the University of 
Utah, where he has taught since 1985.  During that time, he has 
also been a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of 
Government, and Deputy County Attorney for Salt Lake County.  
During the early '80s, he was an associate at the Washington, DC 
law firm of Williams & Connelly.  He was campaign manager of two 
successful gubernatorial campaigns in Utah, and served in 1974 as 
Chief Legislative Assistant to Utah Congressman Wayne Owens.

     J. Preston Strom, Jr. is a criminal trial lawyer with the 
law firm of Bolt, Popowski, McCullock & Strom in Columbia, SC.  
He has previously worked with several other local fims, and was 
Assisstant Solicitor in the Fifth Judicial Circuit from 1984-87.  
After graduating from law school in 1985, Strom became a law 
clerk to South Carolina Cricuit Judge Frank Eppes.

     Robert P. Crouch, Jr. is a partner in the Martinsville, VA 
firm of Young, Haskins, Mann & Gregory, with a general practice 
including civil and criminal trial work.

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