President George W. Bush has nominated USC Trustee and USC Annenberg Board of Councilors member Bruce M. Ramer to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Upon confirmation by the Senate, Ramer's term would last until 2012.
Ramer, an entertainment lawyer, is a partner at Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown. A graduate of Princeton, Ramer earned his law degree from Harvard in 1958. He has been named among the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal, and among the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal. He is a board member of the nonpartisan Pacific Council on International Policy and was founding board chair of the Geffen Playhouse. He served as president of the American Jewish Committee from 1998 to 2001, and the White House chose him as one of four score official delegates who accompanied Bush to Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration this month in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Los Angeles public television station KCET, serving as the chair from 2001 to 2003.
