Commissioner Baker Names New Staff

Federal Communications Commission member Meredith Baker announced that Bradley Gillen, Charles Mathias and Christi Shewman will serve as her legal advisors. Commissioner Baker also announced that Millie Kerr has been appointed as her Confidential Assistant and Staff Attorney.

1) Gillen will serve as Legal Advisor for media issues. He has been the Director of Federal Regulatory and Senior Counsel for Dish Network. Gillen began his career in the communications group at Wiley Rein. He received his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

2) Mathias will serve as Legal Advisor for wireless, international and public safety issues. He most recently served as an Associate Bureau Chief in the Wireless Bureau and before that Special Counsel, where he worked on spectrum and wireless policy issues. Before joining the FCC, Mathias held senior legal and government relations positions at Lucent Technologies and Bechtel. In private practice, he counseled companies and individuals in the information and communications technologies sector, and especially companies interested in expanding their business internationally. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston. Mathias received his B.A. from Harvard University before attending the University of Virginia School of Law.

3) Christi Shewman will serve as Legal Advisor for wireline and universal service. Ms. Shewman has served in a number of roles in the Wireline Competition Bureau since 2003, including Chief of the Competition Policy Division. During her years in the Bureau, she managed and was the lead attorney on, among others, the IP-Enabled Services proceeding and various broadband matters. In 2006, Ms. Shewman served as counsel, on detail from the FCC, to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation. Before joining the Bureau, she held previous positions with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, the Office of FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani, and Qwest Communications.

4) Millie Kerr will serve as Confidential Assistant and Staff Attorney to Commissioner Baker. Before joining the FCC, Ms. Kerr worked as an associate for Allen & Overy LLP in London. Kerr received her B.A. from Wake Forest University and graduated from the University of Texas School of Law.