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Budd Elects Nancy L. Hutcheson Corporate Vice President, General Counsel And Secretary

15 October 1997

Budd Elects Nancy L. Hutcheson Corporate Vice President, General Counsel And Secretary

    TROY, Mich., Oct. 15 -- The Budd Company's Chairman & CEO,
Siegfried Buschmann, announced today that Budd's Board of Directors has
appointed Nancy L. Hutcheson Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary of the company.  She had been Deputy General Counsel and Assistant
Secretary from February to September 1997.  She was hired in August of 1994 as
Assistant General Counsel.
    Prior to joining Budd, Hutcheson had been a partner with Detroit's Hill
Lewis (now Clark Hill) law firm.
    She holds a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School (cum laude 1976)
and a B.A. from the University of Michigan, where she graduated with honors in
1972.  Hutcheson is currently Treasurer of the American Corporate Counsel
Association, Michigan Chapter, and was past president of Boys and Girls
Republic, a residential treatment facility for troubled youth.  She also
served as chairperson of the Trade Regulation and Antitrust Council of the
State Bar of Michigan.
    She and her husband live in Birmingham, Michigan.
    The Budd Company is a leading supplier of automotive components.
Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, it produces components such as doors,
fenders, roofs, hoods, decklids, etc., in sheet metal, as well as in sheet
molded composite (SMC), and grey iron and ductile iron castings for 100
current vehicle models.  Budd also makes prototypes, chassis frames and
subframes, cold weather starting and heating products, and air bag components
for the automotive industry.
    With approximately 9,000 employees Budd, a Thyssen Budd Automotive
company, operates 25 facilities in North America.  In addition, the company
has offices in Stuttgart, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan.

SOURCE  Budd Company