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To: SI Staff
 
From: Office of the Secretary
Subject: Ira Michael Heyman Elected New Secretary
 
                                             Wednesday, May 25, 1994
 
>From the Office of the Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
 
IRA MICHAEL HEYMAN ELECTED NEW SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN
 
     Ira Michael Heyman, Counselor to the Secretary of Interior
     and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, and former
     Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley,
     was elected the 10th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
     today by its Board of Regents.  Heyman will succeed Robert McC.
     Adams, who is retiring on September 19, 1994, after 10 years
     as Secretary.
 
     In Mike Heyman, we found a range of skills which meshes
     perfectly with the needs and interests of the Smithsonian,
     said Barber B. Conable, Jr., Chairman of the Regents' Search
     Committee.  A strong leader, he has successfully directed a
     large and diverse institution that is part of a complex statewide
     system.  This experience will serve him and the Smithsonian well
     in the challenging years ahead.
 
     Heyman is best known for his distinguished service as
     Chancellor of Berkeley, 1980- 1990.  He was Vice
     Chancellor from 1974 to 1980.  Heyman's career at the
     University began in 1959 as a law professor.  From 1966
     until the present, he has been a professor of law and city
     and regional planning.  In stepping down as Chancellor, he
     became the Selvin Professor of Law at the University.  He
     was a visiting professor at Yale (1963-64) and at Stanford
     (1973-74).  He served as chief law clerk to Supreme Court
     Chief Justice Earl Warren (1958-1959).  A member of the state
     bars of California and New York, he earned his law degree in
     1956 from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale
     Law Journal, after receiving his BA degree from Dartmouth
     College.  Heyman served more than a decade as a member of
     Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, which he chaired from 1991 to 1993.
 
     Heyman's expertise goes well beyond the legal field.  His
     interests include civil rights, land planning, housing,
     affirmative action, environmental law and management, and
     metropolitan government, and he is the author of many journal
     articles and papers on these subjects.  He has served as a
     consultant for a number of organizations, including the
     University of Hawaii, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
     Development Commission, the Public Land Law Review Commission,
     and the Virgin Islands Planning Office.  He has been a member
     of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents since 1990.  He resigned
     that position effective today.
 
     Heyman has received three honorary degrees and the 1989
     Koret Israel Prize, and in 1985 he was named a Chevalier
     de la Legion D'Honneur by the French government.
 
     Heyman is married to the former Therese Thau, who has been
     a curator of American prints and photographs, most recently
     at the Oakland Museum in California.  They have a son, James,
     who is 30 years old and a physicist.