Ex-CalPERS Chief to Join ICN Pharmaceuticals Board

ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc. has appointed Dale Hanson to its board of directors.

Hanson, the former chief executive of the California Public Employees Retirement System, is widely known as a leader of the shareholder rights movement that swept corporate America in the late 1980s.

Company executives in Costa Mesa said he will be involved in efforts to build shareholder value as well as those involving corporate governance. Hanson, 53, said he is joining the ICN board committee on governance and another on finance.

Hanson fills a seat formerly held by James P. Miscoll, a retired vice chairman of Bank of America, who resigned in February, an ICN spokesman said.

* Karen Randall has been named managing partner of Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman, the Los Angeles office of Katten Muchin & Zavis, following the departure of Howard Weitzman for MCA Inc.

Randall, 42, and Weitzman had co-managed the 60-lawyer office of the national law firm, which also has offices in Chicago, New York, Washington and Irvine.

Randall continues to serve as a member of the firm’s executive committee and board of directors.

* First Interstate Bank has named Frederick E. Sanford its San Gabriel Valley district manager. He will oversee the 24-branch district, which includes the Los Angeles Main and First Interstate World Center offices in Downtown Los Angeles. Sanford had been a vice president with the bank in San Diego.