ETY Eaton Vance Tax Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund

At a meeting held today, the shareholders of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund (NYSE: ETY), a closed-end investment management company, voted to elect Benjamin C. Esty, Thomas E. Faust Jr., Allen R. Freedman and James B. Hawkes as Class I Trustees of the Fund and Heidi L. Steiger as a Class II Trustee of the Fund. The Fund�s current Class I and the remaining Class II Trustees, who serve staggered three-year terms, were not up for election and remain in office. The Fund is managed by Eaton Vance Management, a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp., which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EV. Eaton Vance and its affiliates had $153.6 billion in assets under management on June 30, 2007.