From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU  Wed May  5 23:41:05 1993
Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 19:30-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org,
Subject: President Names Hayashi to Civil Rightd Post at HHS

                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

                                                                   

For Immediate Release                              May 5, 1993

      PRESIDENT NAMES HAYASHI FOR CIVIL RIGHTS POST AT HHS

(Washington, DC)    The President announced today the appointment 
of Asian-American civil rights attorney Dennis Hayashi to be 
Director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office 
of Civil Rights.  

     "Dennis Hayashi has had a distinguished career of both legal 
and public advocacy for equal rights," said the President.  "I am 
counting on him to continue his good work as part of Secretary 
Shalala's team at HHS.  We need to continue to work for fair 
treatment for all Americans."

     Hayashi, who served as part of the Clinton/Gore Transition's 
civil rights cluster, is the National Director of the Japanese 
American Citizens League, the largest and oldest Asian Pacific 
American civil rights organization in the country.  He previously 
worked for more than a decade as an attorney for the Asian Law 
Caucus, Inc., where he oversaw litigation of major impact cases 
and directed legislative advocacy on both the federal and state 
levels.  Hayashi has also been Associate Grievance Director for a 
San Francisco local of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees 
International Union, an instructor a the New College of 
California Law School, and Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge 
Robert Takasugi.

     A graduate of Occidental College and the Hastings College of 
the Law, Hayashi has also published articles in the Yale Law 
School Journal of International Law and the Kennedy School of 
Government's Asian American Policy Review, as well as in the 
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and 
other newspapers.  He lives in Oakland, California.

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