
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, September 18, 1993                   TAG: 9309180077
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

PROFESSOR NAMED TO HEAD CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

President Clinton announced his appointment of Mary Frances Berry, a University of Pennsylvania history professor, to head the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday. A longtime member of the panel, she is the first woman appointed to lead the commission.

Clinton called her "a civil rights scholar as well as an advocate." She also was a leading critic of Clinton's decision to abandon the nomination of Lani Guinier as head of the Justice Department's civil rights division. - Associated Press

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