FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE				NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
January 25, 2001						David Fiske at (202) 418-0513


CHAIRMAN POWELL NAMES MARSHA MACBRIDE AS FCC CHIEF OF STAFF;
ALSO ANNOUNCES TRANSITION AND PERSONAL STAFF

Washington, DC -- Michael K. Powell, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 
today announced that he will appoint Marsha J. MacBride as the agency's Chief of Staff.  
He also announced a core FCC transition team and his personal staff. 

Ms. MacBride will return to the Commission after having recently served as a Vice President in 
the Washington, D.C., office of The Walt Disney Company.  Nearly a ten-year FCC veteran, Ms. 
MacBride previously held the positions of Legal Advisor to then-Commissioner Powell for mass 
media and cable television matters and Executive Director of the FCC's Task Force on Year 
2000 Conversion.  

"I am incredibly pleased that Marsha has agreed to come back to public service at the 
Commission," Chairman Powell remarked.  "Her prior experience with me as a Legal Advisor 
and, most importantly, as Executive Director of the FCC's Year 2000 Task Force, showed what a 
valuable asset Marsha is to this agency.  As Chief of Staff, she will be exercising her wonderful 
management and people skills that were so instrumental in our successful Y2K effort."

Ms. MacBride joined the Commission in 1991 as an attorney in the Political Programming 
Branch of the Mass Media Bureau's Enforcement Division, and has subsequently served as an 
Acting Deputy Chief of the Cable Services Bureau, Senior Legal Advisor to the Chief, Mass 
Media Bureau, and Associate Chief in the Office of Engineering and Technology.  From 
December 1996 to November 1997, Ms. MacBride was Legal Advisor to Commissioner James 
H. Quello.  

Ms. MacBride is a 1981 graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, where she received, 
with magna cum laude distinction, a B.A. degree. In 1985, she earned her law degree from the 
George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C.

In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Chairman Powell also has designated a core transition 
team of FCC officials that will be responsible, in the interim, for the agency's legal, media 
relations and legislative and inter-governmental functions.  The transition team will coordinate 
its collective activities and efforts with the new Chief of Staff and the Chairman's personal staff.

Jane E. Mago, a Deputy Bureau Chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, will be principally 
responsible for the interim management of the agency's legal functions, overseeing the Office of 
General Counsel.
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David H. Fiske, a Deputy Director of the FCC's Office of Media Relations, will be principally 
responsible for the interim management of the agency's media relations functions, overseeing the 
Office of Media Relations.

Paul A. Jackson, Special Assistant to the Chairman, will be principally responsible for the 
interim management of the agency's legislative and inter-governmental functions, overseeing the 
FCC's Office of Legislative and Inter-governmental Affairs.

The Chairman also announced that his current personal staff, including Mr. Jackson, will move 
to the Chairman's Office.  

Peter A. Tenhula will serve as Senior Legal Advisor to the Chairman, and is responsible for 
wireless and international issues.  

Kyle D. Dixon and Susan M. Eid will also continue to serve Chairman Powell as Legal Advisors.  
Mr. Dixon is principally responsible for common carrier issues as well as selected broadband and 
advanced telecommunications issues.  Ms. Eid is principally responsible for mass media and 
cable television issues.  

Antonia ("Toni") McGowan will continue as the Chairman's Confidential Assistant and Dorothy 
Clingman will move to the Chairman's office as Senior Staff Assistant.

Biographies of these personal staff members are available on Chairman Powell's Internet site via 
the World Wide Web at <http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell>.

Additional staff personnel appointed to the Chairman's Office include: Thomasine ("Tommi") 
Greely, Administrative Officer; Betty Freeman, Special Assistant to the Senior Legal Advisor; 
and Kim Anderson-Collins, Staff Assistant. 

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This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order
constitutes official action.  See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974).