FCC Names New Chief of Staff for Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced a staff change in the management of the FCC’s Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force. Nathan Eagan, who has been the chief of the staff of the Task Force since 2018, has moved to the Office of General Counsel. Audra Hale-Maddox will become the new chief of staff for the Task Force. Since 2012, Hale-Maddox served in the Auctions Division of the FCC’s Office of Economics and Analytics (and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau before that), specializing in auction programs focused on expanding broadband access. Prior to joining the FCC, she was an enforcement attorney for the Federal Election Commission and a litigation associate at Womble Carlyle’s Northern Virginia office. She clerked for Justice Harold See of the Alabama Supreme Court and worked as a civilian attorney for the U.S. Army in Germany. Hale-Maddox graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a concentration in government and she graduated from the William and Mary Law School.