RenaissanceRe Holdings has named Ralph B. Levy as a member of its board of directors.

Mr. Levy, 61, is a senior partner in the Atlanta headquarters office of King & Spalding LLP, a leading global law firm, where he served as managing partner from 1993 to 1999.

Since 2000 he has served on the board of directors of Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society, Ltd. (ALAS), a Bermuda-based mutual insurance company which reinsures professional liability and management liability coverages of large law firms written by its US subsidiary, Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society, Inc., on whose board Mr. Levy also serves.

He served as chairman of ALAS from 2004 through 2006 and has held leadership roles on several of its board committees.

W. James MacGinnitie, chairman of the RenRe board of directors, said, "I am very pleased to welcome Ralph Levy to RenaissanceRe. Ralph has had a distinguished career as a counselor to many financial services companies and we look forward to his contributions as a member of the RenaissanceRe board of directors."