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Lear Corp. Appoints Patrick Murray VP-Industrial Design & Product Analysis    

8 June 1999

Murray Joins Lear's Technology Division    

     SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Lear Corporation today announced the 
appointment of Patrick Murray to Vice President - Industrial Design & Product 
Analysis for the Technology Division.
    
    In this new position, Murray is responsible for managing the company's
Industrial Design Studios at the World Headquarters and Technology Center as
well as the Product Analysis group which studies current market segments and
trends to help determine the future interior products Lear will develop with
its customers.  He also oversees Lear's new Concept Development Studios with
its technical staff and capability to develop 3-dimensional interior concepts
both manually and digitally.

    Murray joined Lear in 1997 from the General Motors Design Center where he
had been employed since 1984.  While at GM, he held various positions with
design responsibilities in the Pontiac Interior Design Studio, GM's Advanced
Concept Center in Thousand Oaks, California, Chevrolet Design Studios, and the
Color Trim and Component Design Studios.  Prior to assuming his current
position, Murray was Lear's Director of Industrial Design and Concept
Development Center for the Technology Division.

    Murray earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute
of Art in Cleveland, Ohio and a Masters of Business Administration degree from
Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.  He is a member of the Industrial
Design Society of America and the Editorial Advisory Board for Automotive &
Transportation Interiors Magazine.

    He and his wife, Marie, reside in Bloomfield, Michigan, along with their
four children.

    Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Southfield,
Michigan, is the world's largest supplier of automotive interiors, with 1998
proforma sales of more than $12 billion.  The company's world-class products
are designed, engineered and manufactured by more than 100,000 employees in
over 300 facilities located in 33 countries.  Information about Lear and its
products is available on the Internet at http://www.lear.com.