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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release            January 14, 1999


PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES LORRAINE PRATTE LEWIS AS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 The President today announced his intent to nominate Lorraine Pratte
Lewis as
Inspector General of the Department of Education.

 Ms. Lorraine P. Lewis, of Washington, DC, has served as General Counsel
at the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) since 1993.   She is the chief legal
advisor to the Director of OPM, and has led the legal support of
reinvention
initiatives, including the privatization of two major OPM programs and the
abolishment of the Federal Personnel Manual. From 1987 to 1993, she served
with the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee as General Counsel,
Counsel, and
Assistant Counsel.   She played a lead role in the development and passage
of
the 1988 Inspector General Act Amendments and the Civil Liberties
Restoration
Act.   She also conducted oversight of the federal inspector general
offices.
In 1986, Ms. Lewis was a volunteer attorney for the Washington LawyerD!,s C
ommittee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she assisted staff attorneys in
conducting employment and fair housing discrimination litigation. From
1984 to
1985, she was an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Feder and
Etes,
where she represented and advised trustees of multi-employer benefit funds,
pension beneficiaries and unions.   She was a field attorney with the
National
Labor Relations Board in Chicago from 1982 to 1984.

 Ms. Lewis received a B.A. degree from Yale University and a J.D. degree
from
Harvard University.

 The Inspector General of the Department of Education is responsible for
conducting investigations and audits of all Department activities to
promote
efficiency and prevent fraud and abuse.

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