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Date: December 12, 1996
Departing Congressman Dick Zimmer to Teach at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton, N.J. -- The Hon. Dick Zimmer, who will conclude his third term as New Jersey's 12th District representative in Congress on January 3, 1997, will have an appointment at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs this spring, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.
Zimmer will not teach a specific course but instead will lend his expertise to a variety of courses, team-teaching with others in subjects where his extensive public affairs knowledge and experience will be most appropriate.
"We're delighted that Dick Zimmer will be joining us," said Woodrow Wilson School Dean Michael Rothschild. "The School is always looking for innovative ways to blend academic knowledge regarding public affairs with the insights that come only from years as a public service professional. Dick Zimmer's experience and insider's view of the world of public policy will offer our students a fascinating and valuable classroom experience."
During his years in Congress, Zimmer was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and a supporter of environmental issues and of cuts in government spending. He also urged the federal government to use the Internet to provide information to citizens, and he was one of the first federal legislators to open a "virtual office" on the World Wide Web.
A former head of New Jersey Common Cause, Zimmer earned his bachelor's and law degrees from Yale. In addition to teaching at the Wilson School, Zimmer will be a practicing attorney and an independent political consultant.
Zimmer joins a distinguished group of public affairs practitioners who will be at the Woodrow Wilson School beginning this spring, including retiring Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder and two distinguished visitors. They are Lord Windlesham, the principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, who is also the former chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales, former minister of state, former Leader of the House of Lords, and author of three volumes on criminal justice and public policy, titled Responses to Crime (Oxford University Press, 1987, 1993, 1996); and Brian Howe, former deputy Prime Minister of Australia.