Biography berl bernhard

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He became involved with Senator Muskie's 1968 vice presidential campaign as a result of his DSCC work, and then went on to work for Senator Muskie's 1972 presidential campaign as national campaign manager accompanying the Senator on his trips to Israel and the Soviet Union. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson named him Director and Special Counsel to the White House Conference "To Fulfill These Rights."

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College and then Yale Law School, he was a law clerk to Federal Judge Luther W.

Youngdahl. and University of North Carolina Incorporated.

Federal City Council of Washington, District of Columbia, 1988-1992.

Member, Board of Higher Education of the District of Columbia, 1967-1968.

Special Counsel for the Democratic National Committee, 1965-1971. Berl lived in New Jersey, then attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1951 and Yale Law School, graduating in 1954. General Counsel, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1965-1971.

National Presidential Campaign Manager for Senator Edmund Muskie, 1971-1972.

Trustee, Dartmouth College, 1974-1984.

He served as Staff Director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights under President Kennedy and served in the State Department as Special Counsel to Under Secretary W. Averell Harriman and later as Executive Counsel to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie. Member board visitors Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences, 1983-1990.

Member board overseers The Amos Tuck School Business Administration, Dartmouth College, 1985-1990.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Government magna cum laude (Rufus Choate scholar), Dartmouth College, 1951; A.M., Dartmouth College, 1974; Juris Doctor, Yale University, 1954; Doctor of Laws, Central Ohio State College, 1963.

Career

Worked at Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in Corporate Law, Regulatory Law, Legislation Law, Transportation Law.

Admitted to the bar, 1954, District of Columbia. In the late 1950s he took a position on the Civil Rights Commission, and was appointed staff director by John Kennedy in 1961. District Court, District of Columbia, 1954-1956.

Attorney, Turney & Turney, 1956-1959.

Staff Director, United States. He has served as a board member of a number of public and private companies, as a Trustee of Dartmouth College, Overseer of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, a member of the Board of Visitors of the Nelson A.

Rockefeller Center, and a member of the Board of Higher Education of the District of Columbia.