Frank Holleman, III, to Address Audience at
Tri-County's Annual Report Luncheon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/8/2000
(By Lisa Garrett)

PENDLETON --- Seneca native Frank S. Holleman, III, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, will deliver the keynote address at Tri-County Technical College's Annual Report to the People Luncheon Thursday, November 16.

The luncheon annually attracts approximately 400 community, business, industrial, government and political leaders from Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties.

Last December President Clinton appointed Mr. Holleman to serve as the chief operating officer of the Department of Education and principal advisor to Secretary of Education Dick Riley on program policies and budget.

He was an attorney with the firm of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman and Paham, P.A., where he practiced from 1997 - 99 and previously from 1982 - 93. From 1994 - 97, he was chief of staff for Secretary Riley.

Mr. Holleman previously served from 1993 - 94 as deputy assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, overseeing the Office of Consumer Litigation and the Office of Immigration Litigation. He clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun from 1981 - 82 and Judge Harrison Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1979 - 80. Last August, Governor Jim Hodges appointed him to serve as vice chair of the board of trustees of South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness, an early childhood initiative. In 1998, Governor-Elect Hodges appointed Mr. Holleman to serve as chair of the Educational Subcommittee of his Transition Team. Secretary Riley appointed him to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in 1997.

He also has served as co-chair of the board of Success by Six, a project of the Greenville United Way, which focuses on the needs of young children; as vice chair of the Advisory Board of the University Center in Greenville and as a board member of the Alliance for Quality Education.

He holds a B.A. from Furman University, a J. D. degree from Harvard Law School, and a M.Sc. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He and his wife, Anne, have three children.
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