Nick Katzenbach was IBM's senior vice president, law and external relations in the 1980s.
The following is the text of a corporate biography published in March 1985.
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach was elected vice president and general counsel of International Business Machines Corporation in January 1969. He was elected a director in November 1970 and a senior vice president in June 1979. He was named a member of the Corporate Management Board in March 1983. He was named senior vice president, law and external relations in March 1985.
Mr. Katzenbach was formerly U.S. Under Secretary of State, a post he was appointed to in 1966. Previously he had been U.S. Attorney General from 1965 to 1966; Acting Attorney General in 1964; Deputy Attorney General from 1962 to 1964; and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1962.
Before joining the Justice Department, Mr. Katzenbach was a professor of law at the University of Chicago from 1956 to 1960, and an associate professor at the Yale Law School from 1952 to 1956.
Mr. Katzenbach graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and enrolled at Princeton University, but left to join the Army Air Force during World War II. Returning to Princeton after the war, he completed his studies and later received an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University from 1947 to 1949.
In 1950, Mr. Katzenbach entered private law practice in Trenton, N.J. He later went to the Pentagon to serve as attorney-advisor and consultant in the Office of the General Counsel to the Secretary of the Air Force.
Mr. Katzenbach is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association and the American Judicature Society.
cholas deBelleville Katzenbach (born January 17, 1922) is an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
Katzenbach left government service to work for IBM in 1969, where he served as general counsel during the lengthy antitrust case filed filed by the Department of Justice seeking the break-up of IBM. He and Cravath's top lawyer Thomas Barr led the case for 13 years until the government dropped it in 1982. Later Katzenbach led the case filed by the European Economic Community. He retired from IBM in 1986 and became a partner at the firm of Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti in New Jersey.He was named chairman of the failing Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in 1991.
In 1980, Nicholas Katzenbach testified in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the defense of W. Mark Felt, later revealed to be the "Deep Throat" of the Watergate scandal and later Deputy Director of the FBI; accused and later found guilty of ordering illegal wiretaps on American citizens.
In December 1996, Katzenbach was one of New Jersey's fifteen members of the Electoral College, who cast their votes for the Clinton/Gore ticket.
Mr. Katzenbach also testified on behalf of President Clinton on December 8, 1998, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing, considering whether to impeach President Clinton .
On March 16, 2004, MCI Communications in a press release announced "its Board of Directors has elected former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach as non-executive Chairman of the Board, effective upon MCI's emergence from Chapter 11 protection. Katzenbach has been an MCI Board member since July 2002." MCI later merged with Verizon.
Katzenbach and his wife Lydia reside in Princeton, New Jersey, with a summer home on Martha's Vineyard in West Tisbury, Massachusetts. His son is writer John Katzenbach. His daughter Maria Katzenbach is also a published novelist.
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