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Date: July 20, 1999
Six Members Join Princeton Board of Trustees
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Six new trustees will join the board of Princeton University in September. They are charter trustee Brent Henry; term trustees Heidi Miller and Crystal Nix; and alumni trustees A. Scott Berg, Andrea Jung and Brian Johnson. All will serve until 2003, except for Henry, who will serve until 2009.
Brent Henry is vice president and general counsel of the MedStar Healthcare Group, a large healthcare delivery system in the Washington D.C. area. He is responsible for all legal, insurance and risk management matters for the hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, outpatient centers and home care services within the system. He is also the chief corporate compliance officer.
Henry, who graduated from Princeton in 1969 as a Woodrow Wilson School major, is chair of the Princeton University Alumni Council. He also is a director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and a director of the Public Welfare Foundation.
After graduating from Princeton, Henry received a master's degree in urban studies from the Yale School of Art and Architecture and a doctor of jurisprudence from Yale Law School.
Heidi Miller is the chief financial officer of Citigroup, one of the world's largest financial services companies. She had held the same position at Travelers Group until it merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup in October 1998. She has responsibility for accounting, treasury, tax, financial planning and analysis and investor relations matters at the corporate level of the $43 billion company.
Miller graduated from Princeton with a degree in history in 1974. She received her Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1979. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton and is a board member of the Children's Defense Fund and Greenwich Emergency Medical Services.
Crystal Nix is a special counsel in the litigation department of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Washington DC. She specializes in appellate litigation, media and international law. Before assuming that post, she worked for four years at the U.S. Department of State, most recently as Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
Nix graduated from Princeton in 1985 as a Woodrow Wilson School major. After serving as chairman and editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian, she became a reporter for The New York Times. In 1990, she graduated from Harvard Law School.
Nix is an advisory council member of the Woodrow Wilson School and a former board member of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the executive committee of the International Human Rights Law Group.
A. Scott Berg is an author who specializes in biographies. He has published three books, all bestsellers. His first book, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, grew out of his thesis at Princeton and won the National Book Award. He followed with Goldwyn: A Biography, about Samuel Goldwyn, and Lindbergh, about Charles Lindbergh. He has taught at UCLA and the University of Southern California.
Berg graduated from Princeton in 1971 as an English major. He often has been a speaker at university events throughout the country and abroad. Most recently, he has given two lecture series, "Princeton in the Nation's Cinema" and "Mr. Stewart Goes to Hollywood." He interviews for the Alumni Schools Committee and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Department of English.
Andrea Jung is president and chief operating officer of Avon Products, the world's leading direct seller of beauty and related products. Jung has responsibility for all of the global business units of the company, which generates $5.2 billion in annual revenues.
After graduating from Princeton in 1979 as an English major, Jung moved quickly through retail marketing positions at Bloomingdale's, J.W. Robinson, I. Magnin and Neiman Marcus before joining Avon in 1994. In addition to her responsibilities at Avon, Jung sits on the boards of General Electric, Zale Corporation, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Fragrance Foundation. Having a strong interest in women's issues, Jung has led fundraising efforts for Girls Incorporated and Girl Scouts of America.
Brian Johnson, a 1999 graduate, was elected the Young Alumni Trustee. Johnson has had an interest in public service throughout his time at Princeton. As a religion major, he wrote his senior thesis on Gandhi's concept of the ideal society. In his sophomore year, he was elected to the Undergraduate Student Government, serving as vice president and a member of the Priorities Committee, which determines how the University allocates its operating budget. He also was an Orange Key guide, a member of the Butler College Council, co-chair of the senior Class Day committee and a Tiger Caller, who solicits donors for the University.
Johnson is now preparing to become an elementary school teacher in Louisiana through the Teach for America program.