Remembering Henry Geller

On April 7, 2020, Henry Geller passed away. Born in Springfield (MA) in 1924, he was raised in Detroit (MI). During a long career in communications policy, he worked at the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and Duke University’s Washington Center for Public Policy Research. His life's work had a profound effect on US telecommunications; his impact on so many advocates and policymakers is impossible to measure. 

"It is hard to overstate the influence that Henry had over two generations of media and telecommunications policy," said Benton Senior Counselor Andrew Jay Schwartzman. "But to focus on the policy work is perhaps to overlook what may have been his greatest accomplishment, which was as the wise and gentle teacher and mentor of two generations of communications lawyers who looked to him as a model of how to do the right thing, the right way."