Department of Education Nomination of Betsy Levin To Be General Counsel.

The President today announced that he will nominate Betsy Levin, of Chapel Hill, N.C., to be General Counsel of the Department of Education, a new position.

Levin has been a professor at Duke University School of Law since 1976. She teaches courses in the organization, financing, and governance of public schools; State and local government; and constitutional law.

She was born December 25, 1935, in Baltimore, Md. She received an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1956 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1966.

From 1956 to 1966, Levin was a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. From 1966 to 1967, she was law clerk to Judge Simon E. Sobeloff of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1967 to 1968, she was a White House Fellow and served as special assistant to then-Representative to the United Nations Arthur J. Goldberg.

From 1968 to 1970, Levin was on the senior research staff of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and from 1970 to 1973, she was director of education studies for the Urban Institute. From 1971 to 1973, she was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law School.

Levin was an associate professor of law at Duke Law School from 1973 to 1975 and has been a professor since 1976. In 1977 she was on leave from Duke to serve as senior associate with the Educational Equity Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE).

Levin is chairman of NIE's subcommittee on law and governance of the school finance task force. She is a member of the advisory committee of the Education Finance Center, Education Commission of the States. She is the author of numerous publications on school finance and other aspects of education and law.