*Pages 1--1 from Microsoft Word - 4205.doc* NEWS News Media Information 202 / 418- 0500 TTY 202 / 418- 2555 Fax- On- Demand 202 / 418- 2830 Internet: http:// www. fcc. gov ftp. fcc. gov Federal Communications Commission 445 12 th Street, S. W. Washington, D. C. 20554 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). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: News Media contact: October 11, 2000 Rosemary Kimball at (202) 418- 0511 LORRAINE C. MILLER, CHIEF OF CONSUMER INFORMATION BUREAU, LEAVES FCC; RODERICK KELVIN PORTER NAMED ACTING CHIEF Washington, DC – Lorraine C. Miller, Chief of the FCC’s Consumer Information Bureau (CIB) since its establishment in November 1999, has left the Commission. Roderick Kelvin Porter, currently Acting Deputy Chief of CIB, has been named Acting Chief of CIB. Miller left to become Director of the Community Empowerment Zone Board at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Before coming to the FCC, Miller was Director, Office of Congressional Relations, Federal Trade Commission. FCC Chairman William E. Kennard said, “I appreciate Lorraine’s enormous talent and energy in getting the new Consumer Information Bureau up and running. I wish her all the best in her new endeavors.” Roderick Porter has been Acting Deputy Chief for Operations at CIB since last April. He has been Deputy Chief of the International Bureau since that bureau was established in 1994. He also has served as Acting Chief of the International Bureau. Previously, he had been Deputy Chief of the Mass Media Bureau and had held several positions in that bureau and its predecessor, the Broadcast Bureau. He also served as legal advisor to then- FCC Chairman Richard E. Wiley. In addition to his FCC service, Porter practiced law for five years in the private sector at the communications law firm of Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth. A native of Freeport, IL, Porter received his B. A. degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, and his J. D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. - FCC - 1