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 NEWS  News  media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  TTY  202  /  418-  25  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  Contact:  May  3,  2001  William  J.  Friedman  (202)  418-  2300 
 COMMISSIONER  GLORIA  TRISTANI  NAMES  TRICIA  KINCH  CONFIDENTIAL 
 ASSISTANT 


 Washington,  D.  C.  –  Commissioner  Gloria  Tristani  today  announced  the  appointment  of 
 Tricia  Kinch  as  her  Confidential  Assistant.  Ms.  Kinch  has  been  detailed  in  the  position  since 
 February  when  Yvonne  Hughes  left  to  become  Special  Assistant  to  FCC  Chief  of  Staff,  Marsha 
 MacBride. 


 Ms.  Kinch  came  to  the  Commission  in  August  of  1998  as  Special  Assistant  to  the 
 Director  of  the  Office  of  Legislative  and  Inter-  Governmental  Affairs.  For  the  past  two  years  she 
 had  served  as  Staff  Assistant  in  the  Office  of  Chairman  William  E.  Kennard. 


 Ms.  Kinch  first  came  to  Washington,  DC  in  1979  as  a  Sears  Congressional  Intern  for 
 Editorial  Journalists  in  the  Office  of  Congressman  Bob  Garcia,  D-  NY.  She  also  served  as  Staff 
 Assistant  on  the  House  Subcommittee  on  Census  and  Population,  chaired  by  Congressman 
 Garcia.  While  on  the  Hill,  Ms.  Kinch  was  a  founding  member  of  Congressional  Black 
 Associates  and  chaired  the  Political  Education  Committee. 


 A  1987  graduate  of  the  Anthropology  Film  Center  of  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  Ms.  Kinch 
 has  also  studied  Communications  at  the  University  of  Washington,  Seattle;  Film  and  Video 
 Production  at  Howard  University  and  Marketing  at  Trinity  College  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Ms. 
 Kinch  received  her  Masters  of  Science  in  Community  Economic  Development  from  the  New 
 Hampshire  College  Graduate  School  of  Business  in  March  2001. 


 Ms.  Kinch  is  divorced  and  has  a  daughter  Dionne  L.  Kinch,  a  second  year  law  student  at 
 Creighton  University  Law  School  in  Omaha,  Nebraska. 


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