Marshall Matz

03/03/2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MARSHALL MATZ

The Emory Pre-Law Society is pleased to announce that the organization's 2005 keynote speaker is Marshal Matz. The event will be held on March 28, 2005 at 7PM in White Hall 208.

Marshall Matz is a principal at Olsson, Frank and Weeda, P.C. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received his B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1968. He received his J.D. from University of Louisville in 1971. Mr. Matz was a Reginald Heber Smith Community Law Fellow with South Dakota Legal Services from 1971 to 1972. He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1971, South Dakota Federal and Tribal Courts in 1972, and the District of Columbia Bar in 1979. He is currently a member of the District of Columbia Bar as well as the Connecticut and American Bar Associations.

Marshall Matz is a well-respected DC lobbyist with deep roots in the policy arena. First coming to Washington in 1973, Marshall was counsel to two Senate committees where he worked with Senators Dole, McGovern and Humphrey on the issue of hunger in America. In his thirty years in Washington, Marshall has provided counsel to a number of companies and associations, particularly membership/trade groups whose strength comes from grassroots lobbying. He has been successful in helping them craft their messages and then get them to where they can do the most good on the Hill.

Before entering private practice in 1980, Mr. Matz spent seven years on Capitol Hill -- five as General Counsel to the U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, and two years as Special Counsel to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. While on Capitol Hill, his primary responsibility was in the area of food, nutrition, and agriculture.

Mr. Matz is currently on the Steering Committee of the Child Nutrition Forum, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) and Friends of the World Food Programme Congressional Hunger Center.