[bulletins] Fw: ARLB030 FCC Chairman Announces Enforcement Bureau Chief

[Randy Allen - KA0AZS]

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>ARLB030 FCC Chairman Announces Enforcement Bureau Chief
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>ARRL Bulletin 30  ARLB030
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>Newington CT  September 10, 2009
>To all radio amateurs 
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>ARLB030 FCC Chairman Announces Enforcement Bureau Chief
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>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski
>announced on September 9 that he has appointed P. Michele Ellison as
>Chief of the Enforcement Bureau. Ellison will take the helm of the
>Enforcement Bureau starting on September 28, 2009. "Protecting and
>empowering consumers through effective and timely enforcement of the
>Commission's rules and policies is a top priority for the FCC," said
>Chairman Genachowski. "Michele is a talented leader with vast
>communications experience and sound legal judgment, and I look
>forward to working with her in her new capacity."
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>Ellison is currently Deputy General Counsel, a position she has held
>for the last 12 years, and most recently served as Acting General
>Counsel of the FCC through July 2009. In addition to her other
>duties, she also was named Transition Counsel to Commissioner Mignon
>Clyburn. Ellison joined the Office of the General Counsel in 1995.
>"She has had a rich and varied practice at the agency, from her
>initial years of handling complex FCC litigation before the federal
>courts to her current focus on competition policy in the context of
>mergers and acquisitions and on spectrum and fraud matters involving
>billions in auctions and universal service funds," according to an
>FCC press release.
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>Ellison also has provided leadership in other policy areas,
>including co-chairing the Commission's Localism Task Force, leading
>a Task Force on expanding communications opportunities to small
>businesses and developing countries, as well as serving as senior
>advisor to former Chairman William Kennard; Kennard served as
>Chairman from October 1997 to January 2001. Before joining the
>Commission, Ellison was a partner with the law firm of Williams and
>Connolly, with a litigation practice. She began her career as a law
>clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith in the US Court of Appeals
>for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit, Michigan and for the Honorable
>Paul R. Webber III in the Superior Court for the District of
>Columbia.
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Randy Allen, KA0AZS