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Board of Regents of the University of Michigan

Andrew C. Richner

Clark Hill PLC
500 Woodward Ave., Suite 3500
Detroit, MI 48226-3435

Phone: (313) 965-8531
email: richner@umich.edu

Regent Richner, a Republican from Grosse Pointe Park, is chair of the Board of Regents. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Business Administration (B.B.A., 1982) and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1986), where he was a contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review.

Regent Richner is a partner in the law firm Clark Hill PLC. He served three terms in the Michigan House of Representatives, two terms as a Wayne County Commissioner, and one term on the Grosse Pointe Park City Council. He was an intern in the Office of Counsel to the President in the White House under President Reagan.

Regent Richner and his wife, Susan, have a 12-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter.

He was elected to the Board of Regents in 2002.