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. #####