FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet Tapped for Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States

President Barack Obama will nominate Jonathan Sallet, the General Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, to be a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Previously, he was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers and was a partner at Jenner & Block and Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin. In 2008, he served on President Obama’s transition team for technology and economic development at the Department of Commerce. From 1993 to 1996, he served as Assistant to the Secretary and Director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning at the Department of Commerce. Sallet was a law clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, Jr. from 1979 to 1980, and he was a law clerk for Judge Edward Tamm on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1978 to 1979. Sallet received an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

The Administrative Conference of the United States is an independent federal agency dedicated to improving the administrative process through consensus-driven applied research, providing nonpartisan expert advice and recommendations for improvement of federal agency procedures. Its membership is composed of innovative federal officials and experts with diverse views and backgrounds from both the private sector and academia. The Council calls plenary sessions of the Conference, proposes bylaws and regulations for adoption by the Assembly, reviews budgetary proposals, and approves the appointment of public members and the conduct of research studies.