FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CIV

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1998	(202) 616-2765

	TDD (202) 514-1888







REMY NAMED AS HEAD OF TORTS BRANCH





	WASHINGTON, D.C. --	Donald M. Remy, the Civil Division's
Senior Counsel for Policy, has been appointed to replace Eva
Plaza as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the
Torts Branch of the Civil Division.  

	Remy had been serving as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney
General since Plaza was nominated to her current position of
Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

	"I am absolutely confident that Mr. Remy will serve the
Department well in his new position.  He is bright, knowledgeable
and has excellent judgment,"  said Frank W. Hunger, Assistant
Attorney General for the Civil Division.  "He has a demonstrated
dedication to public service and he has proven that he can do any
task put before him."

	The Torts Branch is the second largest component of the
Civil Division, employing over 140 attorneys, who represent the
interests of the United States, in suits where monetary judgments
are sought for damages resulting from allegedly negligent or
wrongful acts of the government or its employees.

 	Remy graduated in the top of his class from Howard
University School of Law and was Executive Articles Editor for
the "Howard Law Journal."  He did his undergraduate work at
Louisiana State University.

	Before joining the Department in March of last year, Remy
was at the Washington D.C. office of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP,
where he focused on complex class action litigation, regulatory
matters, and corporate counseling.  

	As a Pentagon lawyer and Captain in the United States Army
from 1991 through 1995, he was an Assistant to the General
Counsel of the Army, Special Counsel to the Secretary of Defense,
and Special Assistant to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.  	He also served as a judicial clerk to The Honorable
Nathaniel R. Jones, who sits on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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