Appointment of Benedict Simms Cohen as Associate Counsel to the President

The President today announced the appointment of Benedict Simms Cohen to be Associate Counsel to the President.

Since June 1987 Mr. Cohen has served in the Office of the Counsel to the President. Prior to that, he was an attorney-adviser, Office of Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice, 1986-1987; a clerk to the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1985-1986; and an associate with the firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, 1983-1985.

Mr. Cohen graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1980) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1983). He was born January 9, 1959, in Nashville, TN, is married, and resides in Washington, DC.