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 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: 
 November  2,  2000  Rosemary  Kimball  at  (202)  418-  0511 


 INTERNATIONAL  BUREAU  ANNOUNCES  STAFF  CHANGES 
 Washington,  DC  –  The  International  Bureau  of  the  Federal  Communications  Commission 
 has  announced  the  following  staffing  changes. 


 PLANNING  &  NEGOTIATIONS  DIVISION 
 J.  Breck  Blalock  has  been  named  Deputy  Chief  of  the  Planning  &  Negotiations  Division.  Blalock  will  provide  assistance  directing  the  Division’s  activities,  which  include  overseeing  the 
 Commission’s  participat  ion  in  the  Internat  ional  Telecommunicat  ions  Union,  negotiat  ion  of 
 spectrum  agreements  and  notification  of  radio  stations.  Blalock  joined  the  Commission  in  1999 
 as  Chief  of  the  Telecommunications  Division’s  Policy  &  Facilities  Branch.  He  began  his  legal 
 career  at  Kirkpatrick  &  Lockhart.  In  1994,  he  moved  to  Leventhal,  Senter  &  Lerman  before 
 joining  Nixon  Peabody  in  1996. 


 Julie  Buchanan  has  been  named  Associate  Chief  of  the  International  Spectrum  and  Communications  Policy  Branch  of  the  Planning  and  Negotiations  Division.  Buchanan 
 previously  served  in  the  Cable  Services  Bureau  before  moving  to  the  Wireless 
 Telecommunications  Bureau,  where  she  served  as  the  Legal  Advisor  to  the  Auctions  Division 
 Chief.  She  has  been  a  senior  attorney  with  the  International  Spectrum  and  Communications 
 Policy  Branch  since  1999. 


 Linda  Pintro  Armstrong  has  been  named  Senior  Legal  Advisor  of  the  Planning  and 
 Negotiations  Division.  Armstrong  will  lead  the  Division's  rulemaking  proceedings,  serve  as 
 principal  advisor  on  all  legal  matters,  assist  in  the  development  of  policy,  and  direct  inter-  bureau 
 rulemaking  coordination  efforts.  Armstrong  joined  the  Commission  in  1996  as  an  attorney  in  the 
 Office  of  the  General  Counsel.  In  1997,  she  moved  to  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau’s 
 Accounting  Policy  Division,  where  she  was  named  Assistant  Division  Chief  in  1999.  Prior  to 
 joining  the  Commission,  she  was  in-  house  counsel  at  MCI  Communications  Corporation  and 
 served  on  active  duty  in  the  Army’s  Judge  Advocate  General’s  Corps. 


 TELECOMMUNICATIONS  DIVISION 
 Jack  Deasy  has  been  named  Chief  of  the  Multilateral  and  Development  Branch  of  the 
 Telecommunications  Division.  Deasy  will  direct  a  team  of  international  and  regional  experts  and 
 will  coordinate  outreach  to  foreign  regulators  and  communications  policy  makers.  Deasy 
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 previously  served  as  the  Bureau’s  regional  specialist  for  Latin  America  and  the  Caribbean. 
 Before  joining  the  Bureau  in  January  2000,  he  served  nearly  16  years  with  the  United  States 
 Foreign  Service.  From  1997  to  2000,  he  was  Director  for  Inter-  American  Communications  and 
 Information  Policy  in  the  State  Department’s  Bureau  of  Economic  and  Business  Affairs. 


 Claudia  Fox  has  been  named  Chief  of  the  Policy  and  Facilities  Branch  of  the  Telecommunications  Division.  Fox  will  supervise  a  team  of  attorneys  and  economists 
 responsible  for  developing  policies  and  procedures  for  international  telecommunication  facilities 
 and  services.  Fox  previously  served  as  an  attorney  in  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau’s  Policy  and 
 Program  Planning  and  Competitive  Pricing  Divisions.  Prior  to  joining  the  Commission,  she 
 clerked  for  the  Honorable  John  Terry,  D.  C.  Court  of  Appeals. 


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