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FIRST-EVER HISTORY COLLEGE NAMES
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

SALEM, NH, August 14, 2009 – Maureen C. Mooney has been named the first
Chief Operating Officer of The American College of History and Legal Studies, the first ever
college dedicated to the study of history.

In her position, Ms. Mooney will report directly to the Founding Dean of the
College on all internal and external matters related to the college. In addition, she will
coordinate with various departments to organize and operate the college, as well as
assisting with all duties related to administering an undergraduate college.
Ms. Mooney brings a wealth of legal and legislative experience to her new
position. She served three terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, where
she was an Assistant Minority Leader, a member of the House Rules Committee, and a
three-term member of the Judiciary Committee. She has sponsored and co-sponsored
significant legislation including enhancing taxpayer rights, expanding protection for
abandoned children, improving safe school zones, and commemorating the USS New
Hampshire nuclear submarine, among others.

Ms. Mooney also served as a political consultant for three major presidential
campaigns, and was a delegate to state and national political conventions, where she
served on the Rules Committees. Most recently, her participation as a Rules Committee
member in Minneapolis, Minnesota contributed to preserving New Hampshire's First in
the Nation Presidential Primary.

Ms. Mooney serves on the Advisory Board of the Academy of the Holy Family in
Baltic, Connecticut and is a Trustee of The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in
Merrimack, New Hampshire. In 2006, she was named one of the New Hampshire Union
Leader's "40 Under Forty," which recognizes outstanding New Hampshire residents
under the age of 40.

Ms. Mooney received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from The
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in 1997. She received her Juris Doctor degree
from the Massachusetts School of Law in 2000.

Located in Salem, New Hampshire, The American College of History and Legal
Studies (www.achls.org) has been created by the Massachusetts School of Law at
Andover (MSL) and recently gained approval from the New Hampshire Post-Secondary
Education Commission to open its doors in August 2010. The New Hampshire Post-
Secondary Education Commission oversees advanced education in the Granite State.

ACHLS will also be a novel "completion" college, offering only the junior and
senior years of college. After their junior year, students who do well at ACHLS will be
able to enter law school at MSL and receive their B.A. after the first year of law school,
rather than after a fourth year of undergraduate school.