H. Patrick Swygert
	Title	President
	E-Mail	hswygert@howard.edu
	Phone	(202) 806-2500
	Fax	202-806-9243

H.Patrick Swygert became president of Howard University on August 1, 1995. As Howard's 15^th president, he is also the fifth African American to serve as the University's chief executive officer.

Mr. Swygert, born in 1943, is an alumnus of Howard University, having earned his undergraduate degree and law degree, cum laude, from the University in 1965 and 1968, respectively. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of New England in 1997, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Temple University in 1999 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Tuskegee University in 2002. Mr. Swygert received the Medallion of the University, the highest honor of the University at Albany, State University of New York, on February 14, 2002.

Mr. Swygert was president of the University at Albany, State University of New York, and a public research university from 1990 until accepting the presidency of Howard in 1995.

Prior to assuming the presidency at Albany, Mr. Swygert had been associated with Temple University in Philadelphia since 1972, when he was appointed to the faculty of the School of Law. In 1987, he was named executive vice president of Temple University.

From 1982 to 1987 he was vice president for university administration, and served as special counsel to the president of Temple University from 1980 to 1982. He also functioned as acting dean of the law school in 1977.

Mr. Swygert served as a visiting professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law during several summers from 1982 to 1990. He also was a visiting professor

of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana in 1975 and 1976; and visiting lecturer/visitor of Cairo, Egypt; Athens, Greece; and Rome, Italy.

Additionally, Mr. Swygert has lectured abroad in a number of other countries, including the Hungarian Ministry of Higher Education and the SUNY Center for Private Enterprise Development in Budapest. Mr. Swygert has acknowledgments from institutions of higher learning, community and professional associations including selection in 2000 as a Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine for his leadership of the successful Howard University-Fannie Mae LeDroit Park Community Revitalization Project, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Equal Justice Award and, in 2001, the District of Columbia Building Industry Association Achievement Award.

Currently, Mr. Swygert is a member of the board of directors of Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C., United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT and the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Hartford, CT. He recently served as Chairman of the

Community Business Partnership of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. In 1993, Mr. Swygert served as chair of the New York State Special Commission on Educational Structure, Policies and Practices. He is a member (inactive) of the District of Columbia Bar, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bar and the State of New York Bar. In addition to his academic career, Mr. Swygert has held several government positions. In 1979, he served as special counsel to the Merit Systems Protection Board. From 1977 to 1979, he was general counsel of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He also served as law clerk to Chief Judge William H. Hastie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, administrative assistant to Congressman Charles B. Rangel, D-NY; Special Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia and as an associate with the New York City law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates.

In 2002, Mr. Swygert was appointed Chairman of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Program Advisory Board by Dr. Roderick R. Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education. On August 8, 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Swygert as a member of the Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration Commission.

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