FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Harry M. Seidman
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President Biden Names Matthew L. Wiener Vice Chairman of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States
WASHINGTON, February 23, 2021 – President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has appointed Matthew Lee Wiener as a member, and designated him to be the Vice Chairman, of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Wiener has been serving as the executive director at the agency since 2012 and will continue to serve in that capacity. He previously served as Council Vice Chairman from January 2017 through January 2021. Wiener will lead the agency until the appointment of a Chairman.
Prior to joining the Conference, Wiener was General Counsel to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, a partner at Dechert LLP, and special counsel to Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation; co-chairs the Adjudication Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice; and serves as an elected member of the Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar’s Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section and the chair of the Section’s Standing Committee on Legislative Practice. He has taught courses on congressional powers and the judiciary, legislation and statutory interpretation, and remedies as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, George Mason University School of Law, and Rutgers University Law School. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was articles editor of the Stanford Law Review, and his A.B. from the College of William and Mary.
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