Carol A. McConnell Appointed CalPERS Deputy General Counsel.News Editors SACRAMENTO Sacramento, city, United States Sacramento (săkrəmĕn`tō), city (1990 pop. 369,365), state capital and seat of Sacramento co., central Calif. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2003 The California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Public Employees' Retirement System today announced the appointment of Carol A. McConnell as Deputy General Counsel. McConnell will serve as manager of the CalPERS Legal Office, supervising the day-to-day activities of 14 attorneys and reporting to General Counsel Peter Mixon. McConnell joined the CalPERS legal staff in 2000, initially serving as legal advisor to the CalPERS Board Health Benefits Committee and later as legal advisor to the Board's Benefits and Program Administration Committee, a role that will continue in her new capacity. "Carol McConnell is an outstanding attorney who is an expert in the complexities of employee pension and health benefits," said Mixon. "I am very pleased that CalPERS members and employers will continue to benefit from her expertise following this well-deserved promotion." Prior to joining CalPERS, McConnell was an Assistant Chief Counsel at the California Department of Personnel Administration. Before joining state service, she was in private practice with the Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney law firm of Sacramento. McConnell received her law degree from the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. , Law School after graduating from California State University, Fresno The campus sits at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the San Joaquin Valley. Fresno County is the sixth largest metropolitan area in California. The university is within an hour's drive of many mountain and lake resorts and within a three- or four-hour drive of both Los , with a degree in English literature English literature, literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent. that the English language acquired much of its modern form. . CalPERS is the largest public pension fund in the U.S. with more than $138 billion in assets. It manages retirement and health benefits for 1.3 million active and retired California public employees and their family members. More information about CalPERS can be found at www.calpers.ca.gov on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . |
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