Rick Kaplan, FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief, To Step Down; Ruth Milkman To Return As Bureau Chief

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that Rick Kaplan will step down as Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and that Ruth Milkman, currently Special Counsel to the Chairman for Innovation in Government, will succeed Kaplan as Bureau Chief. The change will be effective mid-June.

Milkman served as Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau from August 2009 to June 2011, and occupied various roles at the Commission between 1986 and 1998, including Deputy Chief of the International and Common Carrier Bureaus, and Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Reed Hundt. She also was a founding partner of Lawler, Metzger, Milkman & Keeney, LLC, and served as law clerk to the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.