FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE USA MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1995 (202) 616-2771 TDD (202) 514-1888 JAMES ALLAN HURD, JR. NAMED INTERIM U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States Department of Justice announced today that James Allan Hurd, Jr. was appointed interim United States Attorney for the Virgin Islands, pending his confirmation by the United States Senate and appointment by President Clinton. Since July 1994, Mr. Hurd had been Director of the Office of Legal Education for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The President nominated Hurd on July 27, and Attorney General Janet Reno then requested that the District Court of the Virgin Islands appoint Hurd as interim United States Attorney. The Attorney General routinely asks that nominees for United States Attorney be installed on an interim basis while they await confirmation. Hurd replaces W. Ronald Jennings. Hurd has spent most of his 20-year legal career as a prosecutor. From 1989 to 1994, he served as the First Assistant United States Attorney in the District of the Virgin Islands, having also served in the office from 1980 to 1981 and from 1984 to 1987. In addition, he was a Deputy District Attorney in Denver, Colorado from 1975 to 1980 and then the Chief Deputy District Attorney from 1981 to 1984. He was a partner in the law firm of Holt and Hurd in the Virgin Islands from 1987 to 1988, and a partner in the law firm of Pomerantz, Shelby and Hurd, also in the Virgin Islands, from 1988 to 1989. He served in the Air Force from 1968 to 1972 and was on reserve duty from 1979 to 1980. Hurd received his B.A. from Howard University in 1967 and his J.D. from the University of Maryland in 1975. In 1992 he was the President of the Virgin Islands Bar Association and the following year served on the Bar Association's Board of Governors. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Commissioner on the Virgin Islands Law Review Commission. In 1992 he received a Special Achievement Award from the Department of Justice and in 1993 he was given a Director's Award by the Department. ### 95-432