Visteon Appoints Kathleen Hempel to Board of Directors

    DEARBORN, Mich., July 11 Visteon Corporation
today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Kathleen J. Hempel as
a member of the Board, effective immediately.  She joins Peter J. Pestillo,
Visteon's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and William Gray, Robert
Teeter, Robert Jenkins, Charles Schaffer and Steven Hamp on the Board.

    
    Prior to her appointment to Visteon's Board of Directors, Hempel served as
Chief Financial Officer of Fort Howard Corporation for 10 years.  In addition
to her worldwide responsibilities for finance, planning, tax, and accounting
operations, she also served as Vice Chairman from 1992 to 1997, and oversaw
other functional areas such as information technology, investor relations,
legal, human resources and public affairs. 

    Hempel was a member of Fort Howard's Board of Directors for 18 years until
the company merged with James River Corporation in 1997.  She is a past Board
member of the National Association of Manufacturers, and also served on the
Board of the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and its Executive Committee.

    Hempel joined Fort Howard in 1973, and earlier in her career with the
company, served as Vice President of Human Resources.
    From 1992 to 1998, Hempel served a gubernatorial appointment to the
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, where she participated on the
Executive Committee and chaired the Business and Finance Committee.

    "Kathleen brings a wide breadth of corporate and operational management
experience to Visteon's Board of Directors, which will serve us well as we
continue to focus on becoming the world's leading supplier of integrated
automotive systems," Peter J. Pestillo, Visteon's Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer said.

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