Thomas D. Rath Appointed to RNC Temporary Delegate Selection Committee

May 28, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Diane J. Vlahos (603) 226-2600

Concord, NH – May 28, 2009: Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C., a leading full-service law firm based in Concord, New Hampshire with offices in Nashua and Boston, is pleased to congratulate Thomas D. Rath on his appointment to the RNC Temporary Delegate Selection Committee. The RNC Temporary Delegate Selection Committee serves to review the timing of the election, selection, allocation, or binding of delegate and alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention.

A founder of Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C., The Rath Group, and former Attorney General of New Hampshire, Tom has been actively involved in government relations since entering private practice in 1980. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to be a Director of the Legal Services Corporation. Tom served as the Chairman of the election campaigns of New Hampshire's former U.S. Senator, Warren Rudman, and current senior U.S. Senator, Judd Gregg and he actively assisted in the U.S. Senate process that confirmed David Souter as Supreme Court Justice. Tom has served as a senior national advisor to the presidential campaigns of Howard Baker, Robert Dole, Lamar Alexander, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney. He has been a delegate to the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Republican National Conventions and he was the Republican Party National Committeeman for New Hampshire from 1996-2000 and 2002-2007. Tom is widely respected as a political analyst at both the state and national level and he appears regularly on national, regional and state television newsmaker programs.

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