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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: 
 August  8,  2001  Maureen  Peratino  at  202-  418-  0506 


 LAUREN  MAXIM  VAN  WAZER  NAMED  SPECIAL  COUNSEL  TO  CHIEF,  OFFICE  OF  ENGINEERING  AND  TECHNOLOGY 


 Washington,  DC  –  Lauren  Maxim  Van  Wazer  has  been  named  Special  Counsel  to 
 the  Chief  of  the  Office  of  Engineering  and  Technology,  effective  August  20,  2001. 


 Since  June,  Ms.  Van  Wazer  has  served  in  the  office  of  FCC  Commissioner 
 Michael  J.  Copps  as  an  interim  legal  advisor  for  wireless  and  international  issues. 


 Commissioner  Copps  said,  “I  am  delighted  at  Lauren’s  promotion,  recognizing  as 
 it  does  the  combination  of  keen  intelligence,  sound  judgment,  great  enthusiasm  and 
 obvious  integrity  that  she  brings  to  everything  she  does.  I  will  always  be  grateful  to  her 
 for  the  outstanding  support  she  has  given  me  as  I  begin  my  service  at  the  Commission. 
 We  are  fortunate  to  have  Lauren  in  public  service.” 


 She  joined  the  FCC  in  1999  as  a  senior  staff  attorney  in  the  Commercial  Wireless 
 Division  of  the  Wireless  Telecommunications  Bureau.  Prior  to  that,  Ms.  Van  Wazer 
 worked  as  an  associate  at  the  law  firm  of  Arnold  &  Porter  and  as  a  law  clerk  to  the 
 Honorable  Ralph  B.  Guy,  Jr.,  of  the  U.  S.  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Sixth  Circuit.  She  also 
 held  several  management  positions  in  the  Network  Services  department  of  AT&  T. 


 Ms.  Van  Wazer  received  her  J.  D.,  magna  cum  laude,  from  the  Georgetown 
 University  Law  Center,  where  she  was  an  editor  of  the  Georgetown  Law  Journal  and  a 
 member  of  the  Order  of  the  Coif.  She  also  received  a  B.  S.  E.  in  Systems  Science 
 Engineering  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania’s  Moore  School  of  Electrical 
 Engineering. 


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