New D.C./C.A. Judge

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

One of twelve appointments announced today by the White House:

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS

Emilio W. Cividanes, D.C. Court of Appeals 

     Mr. Cividanes, of Washington, D.C., is of counsel to the law firm 
Piper & Marbury, L.L.P.   Since 1991, Mr. Cividanes has taught 
information privacy law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown 
University Law Center.  Before joining Piper & Marbury as an associate 
in 1988, he served one year as counsel to the Senate Judiciary 
Committee's Subcommittee on Technology & the Law, under then-Chairman 
Senator Patrick Leahy.  From 1983 to 1986, he was a civil litigation 
associate with the law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin.  Mr. 
Cividanes received his B.A. in 1979, from Haverford College and his 
J.D. in 1983, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where 
he was a comment editor on the Law Review.