Carter Chooses Heymann

President Carter yesterday named Phillip B. Heymann, professor of Law, to replace Benjamin Civiletti as head of the Justice Department's criminal division.

Heymann, who has been at the Law School since 1969, was an associate prosecutor and consultant to the Watergate prosecution team in the summers of 1973, 1974, and 1975. From 1961 to 1965 he worked at the Justice Department, and from 1965 to 1969, at the State Department.