WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Friday, September 9,
2005, CarrAmerica Realty Corporation's (NYSE: CRE) Board of Directors
unanimously approved the election of Patricia Diaz Dennis to the Board. This
increases the size of the Company's Board of Directors to eight. The Board of
Directors and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of
Directors has not yet determined on which committees Ms. Dennis will serve.
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Since September 1995, Ms. Dennis has been employed by SBC Services, Inc.
She has served as Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel since
August 2004. From May 2002 to August 2004 she served as Senior Vice
President, General Counsel and Secretary of SBC West.
Ms. Dennis serves on the boards of directors of UST Inc., Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company and Girl Scouts of the USA. Ms. Dennis was also
named to the Texas State University System Board of Regents by Governor George
W. Bush, and serves as a trustee for the NHP Foundation. Before joining SBC,
Ms. Dennis was appointed to three federal government positions. Ms. Dennis
was named a member of the National Labor Relations Board by former President
Ronald Reagan. Later, President Reagan appointed Ms. Dennis as a commissioner
of the Federal Communications Commission where she served from 1986 until
1989. From 1989 to 1991, Ms. Dennis made a brief departure from public
service and joined the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where she
served as a partner and the head of the communications department. In 1992,
Ms. Dennis left the private sector and returned to public service when she was
appointed by former President George Bush as assistant secretary of state for
human rights and humanitarian affairs.
CarrAmerica owns, develops and operates office properties in 12 markets
throughout the United States. The company has become one of America's leading
office companies by meeting the needs of its customers with superior service,
a large portfolio of quality office properties and extraordinary development
capabilities. Currently, CarrAmerica and its affiliates own, directly or
through joint ventures, interests in a portfolio of 290 operating office
properties, totaling close to 27 million square feet. CarrAmerica's markets
include Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Orange County, Portland,
Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and metropolitan
Washington, D.C. For additional information on CarrAmerica, including space
availability, visit our web site at http://www.carramerica.com.
SOURCE CarrAmerica Realty Corporation
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