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      ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO AND HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
                 SECRETARY SHALALA TO MEET WITH
           ADVISORY COUNCIL ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Thursday, January 25th, Attorney
General Janet Reno and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala will meet with their Advisory Council on Violence Against
Women from 10 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. in the Great Hall at the Justice
Department.  This is the second meeting of the Advisory Council.  

     Opening remarks by Attorney General Reno, Secretary Shalala
and Director of the Violence Against Women Office Director Bonnie
J. Campbell are scheduled from 10:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.  The
remainer of the meeting will consist of committee reports in the
areas of Media & Entertainment, Education, the Workplace, the
Religious Community, Sports Industry, Health, and Law Enforcement. 

     NOTE:  A list of participants from across the country is
attached.  Many will be available for interviews with local
affiliates. 

     WHAT:     Advisory Council on Violence Against Women

     DATE:     Thursday, January 25, 1996

     TIME:     10:00 a.m.

     PLACE:    The Justice Department's Great Hall
               10th and Constitution, N.W.

     The Advisory Council provides Attorney General Reno and
Secretary Shalala with practical and general policy advice
concerning the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act
(VAWA), which was enacted as part of the 1994 Crime Bill.  In
addition, the Advisory Council works to bring national attention to
the problem of violence against women and increase public awareness
of the need for improved strategies to curb these crimes.  

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96-011
            Advisory Council on Violence Against Women
                    RSVP for January 25, 1996

                            Co-Chairs

yes       Hon. Janet Reno, The Attorney General

yes       Hon. Donna E. Shalala, The Secretary of Health and Human
          Services

                     Advisory Council Members

yes       Gail Abarbanel, Director, Rape Treatment Center (Santa
          Monica, CA)

yes       Michael P. Barnes, President, National District
          Attorneys' Association (NDAA); Prosecuting Attorney, 60th
          Judicial Circuit (South Bend, IN)

yes       Larry A. Bedard, M.D., Chairman, Advisory Committee for
          the American Medical Association Campaign Against Family
          Violence (Sausilito, CA)

yes       Carl C. Bell, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
          the University of Illinois School of Medicine (Chicago,
          IL)

yes       Alana Bowman, Supervising Deputy, Domestic Violence
          Prosecution Unit of the Los Angeles City Attorney (Los
          Angeles, CA)

yes       Reginald K. Brack, Jr., Chairman, Time, Inc.; Chairman,
          Advertising Council (New York, NY)

yes       Sarah M. Buel, Assistant District Attorney, Norfolk
          County District Attorney's Office (Quincy, MA)

by phone  Lem Burnham, PhD, Director, NFL Player Programs,
          National Football League (New York, NY)

tbd       Hon. Karen Burstein, Former New York State Family Court
          Judge (New York, NY)

tbd       Hon. Jane Campbell (D-OH), President, National Council
          of State Legislators (NCSL) (Cleveland, OH)

yes       Carol A. Cartwright, PhD, President, Kent State
          University (Kent, OH)

no        Jerome A. Chazen, Chairman of the Board, Liz Claiborne
          Inc. (New York, NY)

yes       Vickii Coffey, Executive Director, Chicago Abused Women
          Coalition (CAWC) (Chicago, IL)

yes       Ellen R. Cohen, Executive Director, Houston Area
          Women's Center (Houston, TX)

yes       Catherine O'Reilly Collette, Director, Women's Rights
          Department of the American Federation of State, County,
          and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) (Washington, DC)

yes       Susan Dey, Actress/Advocate (Los Angeles, CA)

yes       Linda A. Fairstein, Chief, Sex Crimes Unit, New York
          County District Attorney's Office (New York, NY)

yes       Rev. Marie M. Fortune, PhD, United Church of Christ,
          Executive Director of the Center for the Prevention of
          Sexual and Domestic Violence (Seattle, WA)

yes       Linda Gordon, PhD, Florence Kelley and Vilas Research
          Professor of History, University of Wisconsin (Madison,
          WI)

yes       Kathryn Walt Hall, Executive Vice President, Hall
          Financial Group, Inc. (Dallas, TX)

yes       Hon. Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General of the
          Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)

yes       Robin S. Hassler, Executive Director, Task Force on
          Domestic Violence, Office of the Governor of Florida
          (Tallahassee, FL)

yes       Hon. Paul Helmke, Mayor, City of Fort Wayne, Indiana
          (Fort Wayne, IN)

yes       Joan A. Kuriansky, Founder, My Sister's Place; Former
          Executive Director, Older Woman's League (Washington,
          DC)

yes       Joyce Ladner, PhD, Former Interim President and
          Professor of Social Work, Howard University
          (Washington, DC)

tbd       Eppie Lederer, Ann Landers Nationally Syndicated
          Columnist (Chicago, IL)

yes       Hon. Cindy Lederman, President-Elect, National
          Association of Women Judges; Circuit Court Judge,
          Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Juvenile Division, Dade
          County, Florida (Miami, FL)

yes       Wilma P. Mankiller, Former Principal Chief, Cherokee
          Nation (Tallequah, OK)

yes       Robert E. McAfee, MD, President, American Medical
          Association (Portland, ME)

yes       Helen R. Neuborne, Women's Right Program Officer, Ford
          Foundation (New York, NY)

yes       Brian Kenji Ogawa, PhD, Director, National Academy for
          Victim Studies, Department of Criminal Justice,
          University of North Texas (Denton, TX)

no        Ruben B. Ortega, Chief of Police, Salt Lake City Police
          Department (Salt Lake City, UT)

yes       Hon. Vincent James Poppiti, Chief Judge, Delaware
          Family Court; Chairman of the Domestic Violence
          Coordinating Counsel (Wilmington, DE)

yes       Roberta Cooper Ramo, President, American Bar
          Association (Albuquerque, NM)

yes       Judy Rex, Coordinator, Vermont Network Against Domestic
          Violence and Sexual Assault Montpelier, VT)

yes       Jerome R. Rossi, President and Chief Operating Officer,
          Marshalls, Inc. (Andover, MA)

no        Susan Schechter, Clinical Professor, University of Iowa
          School of Social Work (Iowa City, IA)

yes       Esta Soler, Executive Director, Family Violence
          Prevention Fund (San Francisco, CA)

yes       Norm H. Stamper, PhD, Chief of Police, Seattle Police
          Department (Seattle, WA)

yes       Diane Stuart, Advocate (Salt Lake City, UT)

no        Louis W. Sullivan, MD, President, Morehouse School of
          Medicine (Atlanta, GA)

no        Susan L. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief, Essence Magazine (New
          York, NY)

yes       Sara Torres, RN, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair,
          Department of Community Health, Psychiatric/Mental
          Health, and Nursing Systems, University of North
          Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)

yes       Marvin L. Van Haaften, Sheriff, Marion County
          (Knoxville, IA)

yes       Rosalyn Weinman, PhD,  Senior Vice President, Broadcast
          Standards and Practices, National Broadcasting Company
          (New York, NY)

yes       Sheila Wellstone, Advocate (St. Paul, MN)

                        Ex-Officio Members

yes       Susan J. Blumenthal, MD Deputy Assistant Secretary for
          Health (Women's Health); Assistant Surgeon General,
          U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

yes       Hon. Joseph E. Brann, Director, Community Oriented
          Policing Services Office (COPS), U.S. Department of
          Justice

yes       Hon. Bonnie J. Campbell, Director, Violence Against
          Women Office, U.S. Department of Justice

no        Peter B. Edelman, Counselor to the Secretary, U.S.
          Department of Health & Human Services