For Immediate Release News Media Contact:

May 19, 2000 Steve Adamske (202) 418-8221

**CHAIRMAN KENNARD ANNOUNCES STAFF CHANGES AT THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION**

Washington, DC---Federal Communications Commission Chairman William E.
Kennard today announced changes in some of the top staffing posts at the
FCC.

"I feel proud and honored to have these talented individuals on my team.
They all have made and will continue to make enormous contributions to
the FCC," said Chairman Kennard.

The Chairman appointed Dorothy Attwood as senior legal advisor in the
Office of the Chairman. Attwood will continue to specialize in common
carrier and enforcement issues. In addition, the Chairman announced that
his legal advisor for wireless and international affairs, Ari
Fitzgerald, has accepted a promotion to become a deputy bureau chief of
the International Bureau. The Chairman has appointed Clint Odom to
replace Fitzgerald as legal advisor for wireless and international
matters in the Chairman's office. In April, the Chairman appointed Karen
Edwards Onyeije as his legal advisor for mass media and cable issues.
Onyeije will also assume responsibility for consumer issues in the
Chairman's office.

The Chairman has asked Roderick Porter to take a temporary leave from
his current position as a deputy bureau chief of the International
Bureau in order to serve a six-month detail assignment as deputy chief
for operations in the Consumer Information Bureau.

Dorothy Attwood has been a legal advisor to Chairman Kennard since July
of 1999, specializing in common carrier issues, enforcement and consumer
issues. Before joining the Chairman's office, she was the chief of the
Common Carrier Bureau's Enforcement Division. After joining the
Commission in 1996, Attwood served in the Policy and Program Planning
Division of the Bureau, on a detail from the Office of General Counsel,
where she was involved in rulemakings implementing the
Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Ari Fitzgerald has been legal advisor to the Chairman since the
beginning of Chairman Kennard's tenure and has specialized in
international and wireless issues. Before his appointment, Fitzgerald
served as senior legal advisor to the chief of the International Bureau.
Fitzgerald joined the Commission from the United States Justice
Department's Office of Legal Counsel, where for three years he provided
legal advice to the White House Counsel's Office and executive branch
agencies.

Roderick Porter has served as deputy chief of the International Bureau
since its inception in 1994. He was previously deputy chief of the Mass
Media Bureau and had several positions in that bureau and its
predecessor, the Broadcast Bureau. He also has served as legal advisor
to FCC Chairman Richard E. Wiley. From 1976 to 1981, he was an attorney
in a Washington, DC, communications law firm.

Clint Odom is leaving his post as legal advisor in the Cable Services
Bureau for the Chairman's office. He had held this position since March
1999. Before that, he served the Commission as attorney-advisor in the
Policy and Rules Division of the Cable Services Bureau, and attorney
advisor in the Commercial Wireless Division of the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau. He joined the FCC in 1996 in the Office of
the General Counsel as an attorney advisor.

Karen Edwards Onyeije has served as special counsel in the Office of
General Counsel since October 1999. In this capacity, she handled mass
media and cable policies, including biennial review of the broadcast
cross ownership rules, digital must carry, equal employment opportunity
rules for broadcaster and multichannel video programming providers, and
the Commission's merger review process. Before joining the Commission,
she served as senior policy advisor for Intergovernmental Affairs to the
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA).

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