<div id="subtitle">Verizon names former Clinton transportation secretary to its board</div><div><p>Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday that it has named a former U.S. secretary of transportation who served under President Bill Clinton to its board.</p><p>Rodney Slater will join Verizon's board of directors, effective March 5.</p><p>Slater will be Verizon's 13th board member.</p><p>He is a partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP in Washington, where he specializes in transportation, infrastructure and public policy issues.</p><p>Slater also is vice chairman and senior adviser at James Lee Witt Associates, an emergency preparedness consulting firm in Washington.</p><p>He served under President Clinton from Feb. 1997 to Jan. 2001. Slater also sits on the boards of Delta Air Lines, ICx Technologies, Kansas City Southern and Transurban Group.</p><p>Shares of Verizon, based in New York, fell 55 cents to $28.64 in afternoon trading.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68462765&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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