Chairman Pai Names Ashley Boizelle Acting FCC General Counsel

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that Ashley Boizelle will serve as Acting General Counsel for the FCC. Boizelle joined the FCC in 2017 as Deputy General Counsel for Administrative Law and has served as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation since 2019. Boizelle will serve as Acting General Counsel from July 13 to September 4, 2020, while General Counsel Thomas M. Johnson, Jr., is on paternity leave. Boizelle joined the FCC from the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Prior to joining the firm, Boizelle served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She obtained her law degree from Yale Law School and her undergraduate degree with honors from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.