Judge and Former NCTA Legal Head Dan Brenner Dies in Auto Accident

Los Angeles (CA) Superior Court Judge Dan Brenner, former head of legal at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street in Los Angeles Feb 15. Judge Brenner was named a judge in December 2012. He was appointed by Gov Edmund G. Brown Jr (D-CA), and had been a partner in the communications, media and entertainment practice at Hogan Lovells in Washington and a source of legal expertise on communications issues. Before joining Hogan Lovells he was a senior VP of NCTA, in charge of its legal department.

He was also a former advisor to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, an adjunct professor at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, and co-author of "Cable Television: Law and Policy. Judge Brenner also served on the adjunct faculties of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington College of Law at American University, Cardozo Law School, and on the communications program faculties at UCLA, USC Annenberg, and George Washington University. Judge Brenner was vice chair and a member of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as on the boards of the Stanford Library Visitors Board, Cable Positive, the Federal Communications Bar Foundation, Tekelec, a technology company, as well as the board of advisors of Falcon Cable Systems. He received the NCTA's President’s Award for service to the cable industry in 2009.