Meredith Attwell Baker Nominated for FCC Commissioner

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President Barack Obama has nominated Meredith Attwell Baker as Commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission. If confirmed, her term will expire June 30, 2011. She has more than twelve years of experience working in the field of telecommunications and technology policy in both the public and private sector. She most recently served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration from 2007 to January 2009. Baker's nomination is paired with that of South Carolina Public Service Commission member Mignon L. Clyburn whose term would expire July 1, 2012. Baker was previously Vice President at the firm of Williams Mullen Strategies, where she focused on telecommunications, intellectual property, and international trade issues. Earlier, she held the position of Senior Counsel at Covad Communications from 2000 to 2002, and Director of Congressional Affairs at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) from 1998 to 2000. Ms. Baker worked at the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit in Houston and later at the law firm of DeLange and Hudspeth.


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