President Obama Nominates Two for FTC

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Julie Brill and Edith Ramirez to serve as commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission.

Julie Brill became the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice in February 2009. A resident of North Carolina and Vermont, Brill is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University's School of Law. Prior to her leadership at the North Carolina Department of Justice, Brill was an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont for over 20 years (1988-2009). Brill has also served as a Vice-Chair of the Consumer Protection Committee of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section since 2004. Prior to her career in law enforcement, Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York from 1987 to 1988, and she clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings Jr. from 1985 to 1986. Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1981 and from New York University School of Law in 1985, where she received a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.

Edith Ramirez is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP where she specializes in intellectual property and complex litigation matters. She has a broad range of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in copyright, trademark, antitrust, business tort, and other general business litigation cases. Ms. Ramirez has also been active throughout her career in a variety of professional and community activities. Ms. Ramirez graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1989. She obtained her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1992, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.