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Saturday, September 1, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Gregory B. Craig, one of the nation's best-known lawyers, will deliver the Convocation Address at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, September 6, in Harbach Theatre, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The event, which is free and open to the public, is the formal opening of the 2001-2002 academic year. Overflow seating and video monitors will be available in the lobby.
A partner in the Washington law firm of Williams and Connolly, Craig has been involved in some of the highest-profile court cases in recent U.S. history. He was Special Counsel to the President during the Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998-99. He represented Juan Miguel Gonzales, the father of seven-year-old Elian Gonzales, in the court battle for custody of the young Cuban refugee. Craig also helped defend John Hinckley, Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981 but was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Craig earned a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, at Harvard University; a Diploma in Historical Studies at Cambridge University; and a law degree at Yale University Law School. As a college student, Craig was active in voter registration in Mississippi. He joined Williams and Connolly in 1972, was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1973, and to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar in 1977. From 1974 to 1976 he was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, DC, and taught at Yale. From 1982 to 1986 he taught at Harvard's Trial Advocacy Institute, and from 1984 to 1988 he was U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's Senior Advisor on Foreign Policy and Defense. He also has been Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, where he served as U.S. Special Coordinator on Tibet.
Craig is a member of the boards of directors of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial. He has served on the boards of The International Human Rights Law Group, Foreign Student Service Council, Overseas Development Council, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Founded in 1837, Knox is nationally-ranked liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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