Jane Hinckley Halprin Will Serve As FCC's Administrative Law Judge

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that Jane Hinckley Halprin will serve as the agency’s Administrative Law Judge. Halprin will replace Judge Richard Sippel, who retired on Dec 1. The Office of Administrative Law Judges of the FCC is responsible for conducting the hearings ordered by the Commission.

Halprin joined the FCC in 1987 as a staff attorney in the former Common Carrier Bureau and has occupied positions in the former Mass Media Bureau, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and the Office of General Counsel. For the past 14 years, she has served in the Office of General Counsel as an Ethics Counsel and for the past year has led the agency’s ethics team as Assistant General Counsel for Ethics.