Newly selected President of the Harvard Board of Overseers Richard E. Oldenburg ’54 announced the appointment of five new Overseers to the University’s second highest governing board during Commencement exercises earlier this month.

The five were elected to six-year terms by alumni this spring from a field of eight candidates nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).

Leading the election results was Harold H. Koh ’75 with 20,519 votes out of 33,424 votes cast—a participation rate of 16.5 percent amid eligible voters.

Also elected were Susan Graham Harrison ’64, Paul A Buttenwieser ’60, Bruce M. Alberts ’60 and Deborah C. Wright ’79.

The new Overseers replace outgoing Overseers John C. Baldwin ’71, Peter C. B. Bynoe ’72, Jack R. Harrison ’55, Lisa Henson ’82 and outgoing Board President Sharon E. Gagnon.

Harold Hongju Koh ’75:

Koh, an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton Administration, presently serves as the Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and director of the school’s Schell Center for International Human Rights.

He clerked for both Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Harry A. Blackman of the United States Supreme Court and later served as a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice.