01-24-95 Virginia Trethewey to be V.P. for Legal Affairs

VIRGINIA TRETHEWEY TO BE VICE PRESIDENT FOR LEGAL AFFAIRS

     COLUMBUS -- A highly experienced Columbus attorney has been
recommended by Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee and
Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery to be the university's new
general counsel and vice president for legal affairs.

     The name of Virginia M. Trethewey, 49, former partner in the
Columbus law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, will be
presented to the Board of Trustees for approval at its Feb. 3
meeting.

     Trethewey will be responsible for coordinating and
supervising all legal matters at the university.  Her salary will
be $140,000.

     As a public university, Ohio State is represented legally by
both its own counsel and the state attorney general's office.
The vice president for legal affairs also is an assistant state
attorney general, coordinating assignments with the attorney
general's staff as well as the university's internal and external
counsel.

     Trethewey will succeed Robert M. Duncan, who announced last
October his intention to relinquish the position of general
counsel and vice president for legal affairs but retain his
second appointment as secretary to the Ohio State Board of
Trustees.

     "I am honored to have the opportunity to serve Ohio State
and humbled by the prospect of following in Judge Duncan's
footsteps," Trethewey said. "I look forward to working with
Attorney General Montgomery, the trustees, President Gee and the
Ohio State administration in furthering the progress of the
university from which I received my own law degree."

     Trethewey received her J.D. cum laude from Ohio State's
College of Law in 1977, having returned to college after six
years as a sixth grade teacher in the Fredericktown, Ohio, public
school system. She had received her B.A. in political science in
1967 from the University of Washington.

     In announcing the appointment, Montgomery said that
Trethewey "has an impressive breadth of experience appropriate to
the responsibilities of this position and an equally imposing
record of accomplishment.

     "Her practice involved a spectrum of regulated activities
and contractual arrangements, and work with non-profit
organizations such as Children's Hospital and corporations such
as Honda of America."

     Gee added, "In the civic work that she done for our city and
state, Ginny Trethewey also exemplifies the service role that
Ohio State fulfills as one of its missions as a public
university."

     Trethewey served on the board of the Columbus Speech and
Hearing Center, instituted its Great Communicator's annual
luncheon, and was board president in 1986-87. She is a trustee of
the Ohioana Library Association, whose mission is to preserve and
promote the literary, cultural and artistic work about or by
Ohioans; as well as a trustee and chair of the development
committee of the Wellington School.

     Trethewey and her husband, Leon M. McCorkle Jr., have a son
John, 4, whom she left the Vorys firm to raise in 1991.  Since he
is now in pre-kindergarten, she said, "I am ready to resume my
professional career."  Her older son by a former marriage, Kyle
Trethewey, 15, is a freshman at The Wellington School.

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