EXHIBIT 99.1

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bruce A. Klein
Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Franklin, Tennessee
615-771-3100

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006



FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE, JANUARY 24, 2006 - CLARCOR INC. (NYSE: CLC) announced today
that James W. Bradford, Jr., has been elected to its Board of Directors. Mr.
Bradford will fill a vacancy on the Board.

Mr. Bradford, age 58, is the Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at
Vanderbilt University. He previously served as Associate Dean at Owen and
earlier as the President and Chief Executive Officer at United Glass Corporation
and at AFG Industries, Inc. Mr. Bradford is also a director of Genesco, Inc.,
Nashville, Tennessee, and Granite Construction, Incorporated, Watsonville,
California.

"Jim Bradford provides a unique combination of business and academic expertise
and experience that we believe will be invaluable to CLARCOR," said Norman
Johnson, CLARCOR's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We are pleased that he
has joined CLARCOR's Board of Directors."

The Company also announced that Mr. Richard M. Wolfson was elected by the Board
as its Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Wolfson
replaces Mr. David J. Boyd who is retiring. Prior to joining the Company, Mr.
Wolfson was a principal in the InterAmerican Group, a strategic advisory and
private equity firm. Before that, he was a partner in the Chicago office of
Baker & McKenzie.

CLARCOR is based in Franklin, Tennessee, and is a diversified marketer and
manufacturer of mobile, industrial and environmental filtration products and
consumer and industrial packaging products sold in domestic and international
markets. Common shares of the Company are traded on the New York Stock Exchange
under the symbol CLC.