FCC Chairman Genachowski Announces Enforcement Bureau Chief

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the appointment of P. Michele Ellison as Chief of the Enforcement Bureau. Ms. Ellison will take the helm of the Enforcement Bureau starting on September 28, 2009. Ellison is currently Deputy General Counsel, a position she has held for the last twelve 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 has co-chaired the Commission's Localism Task Force, lead a Task Force on expanding communications opportunities to small businesses and developing countries, and served as senior advisor to former Chairman Kennard on a variety of agency-wide substantive and operational matters.