**FCC ENFORCEMENT BUREAU'S INVESTIGATIONS AND HEARINGS**

**DIVISION ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS**

Washington, D.C. \-\-- William Davenport has been named Chief of the FCC
Enforcement Bureau's Investigations and Hearings Division, and Hillary
De Nigro has been named Deputy Chief. Cathy Carpino and David Brown have
been appointed Assistant Division Chiefs. James Shook and David Janas
have been named Special Counsels in the Division.

Mr. Davenport previously served as Deputy Chief and Assistant Chief of
the Investigations and Hearings Division. Prior to that, Mr. Davenport
was Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Enforcement Bureau. Before joining
the Commission in 1999, Mr. Davenport was an associate at the firm of
Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP in Washington, D.C.,
specializing in telecommunications and complex litigation. Mr. Davenport
received a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. De Nigro previously as served Assistant Chief of the Investigations
and Hearings Division and prior to that was an attorney advisor in that
division. Before joining the Commission in 2001, Ms. De Nigro practiced
commercial litigation in the D.C. offices of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy, LLP, and, prior to that, was engaged in commercial litigation
and energy regulatory hearings for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Ms. De Nigro received a B.A. from Emory University and a J.D. from the
Georgetown University Law Center.

Ms. Carpino comes from the Wireline Competition Bureau\'s Competition
Policy Division, where she worked as a senior attorney on broadband
matters, the Commission\'s Triennial Review proceeding, and the
Bureau\'s Virginia Arbitration. Prior to joining the Commission in 2001,
Ms. Carpino worked as a senior counsel to the Massachusetts Department
of Telecommunications and Energy overseeing, among others, that
agency\'s section 271 proceeding and various arbitrations. After
graduating from law school, Ms. Carpino also worked for several members
of the United States Senate. Ms. Carpino received a B.A. from Trinity
College in Connecticut and a J.D. from Tulane University.

Mr. Brown previously served as an attorney advisor in the Investigations
and Hearings Division. Prior to that, Mr. Brown was Legal Advisor to the
Chief of the Office of Broadcast License Policy, Media Bureau, after
completing a detail as an Interim Legal Advisor to Commissioner Kevin
Martin. Mr. Brown joined the Commission in 1999 as an Attorney-Advisor
in the Video Services Division of the Mass Media Bureau. Mr. Brown
received a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University
of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Shook has worked for the Commission since 1980, most recently
serving as a senior trial attorney in the Investigations and Hearings
Division. Mr. Shook served in the former Broadcast and Mass Media
Bureaus, before joining the Enforcement Bureau at its inception in 1999.
Since 1988, Mr. Shook has appeared before Commission administrative law
judges in numerous proceedings regarding license applications and
revocations. Mr. Shook received his B.A. from Princeton University and
his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Janas previously served as an attorney advisor in the Investigations
and Hearings Division. Before joining the Commission in 2001, Mr. Janas
was an associate at the firms of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and
Popeo, P.C. and Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, LLP in Washington,
D.C., specializing in telecommunications and litigation. Mr. Janas
received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and
a J.D. from the American University, Washington College of Law, where he
teaches telecommunications law as an Adjunct Professor.

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