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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: 
 October  31,  2001  Michael  Balmoris  202-  418-  0253 
 Email:  mbalmori@  fcc.  gov 


 FCC  COMMON  CARRIER  BUREAU  ANNOUNCES  FRONT  OFFICE 
 PERSONNEL  APPOINTMENTS 


 Washington,  DC  –  Today,  Common  Carrier  Bureau  Chief  Dorothy  Attwood  made  the 
 following  personnel  announcements. 


 Jane  Jackson  has  been  named  Associate  Bureau  Chief  of  the  Common  Carrier 
 Bureau. 


 Ms.  Jackson  has  served  as  Chief  of  the  Competitive  Pricing  Division  of  the  Common 
 Carrier  Bureau  since  1998.  She  joined  the  Division  as  Deputy  Chief  in  1996.  As  Chief  of  the 
 Division,  Ms.  Jackson  directed  the  division  on  access  charge  reform,  including  CALLS, 
 annual  access  tariff  filings  by  incumbent  local  exchange  carriers  (LECs),  competitive  LEC 
 access  charge  matters,  pricing  issues,  including  reciprocal  compensation,  collocation  pricing, 
 and  unbundled  network  elements  (UNE)  pricing  issues,  and  various  payphone  matters. 


 Ms.  Jackson  has  also  served  in  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau’s  Enforcement  Division, 
 Accounting  Division,  and  Policy  Division.  She  first  joined  the  FCC  in  1976,  working  in  the 
 Cable  Television  Bureau.  In  addition  to  working  at  the  FCC,  Ms.  Jackson  has  practiced  law 
 with  the  firm  Dow,  Lohnes  and  Albertson.  She  also  spent  five  years  teaching  Administrative 
 Law,  Constitutional  Law,  and  Federal  Jurisdiction  at  Salmon  P.  Chase  College  of  Law, 
 Northern  Kentucky  University.  She  received  her  B.  A.,  from  Barnard  College  and  her  J.  D. 
 from  Vanderbilt  University  School  of  Law. 


 Richard  Lerner  has  been  appointed  Associate  Bureau  Chief,  and  will  serve  as  the 
 Bureau’s  Chief  of  Staff. 


 Since  February  1998,  Mr.  Lerner  served  as  Deputy  Chief  of  the  Competitive  Pricing 
 Division  of  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau.  His  areas  of  responsibility  included  access  charge 
 reform,  the  conversion  of  implicit  subsidies  in  interstate  access  charges  into  explicit  universal 
 service  support,  and  pricing  issues  of  Regional  Bell  Operating  Companies’  (RBOCs) 
 application  to  provide  in-  region,  interLATA  service. 


 Prior  to  joining  the  Commission,  Mr.  Lerner  was  engaged  in  private  practice  of  law 
 with  Reed  Smith  Shaw  &  McClay.  Mr.  Lerner  attended  the  University  of  North  Carolina 
 School  of  Law  and  the  University  of  Michigan.  Mr.  Lerner  joined  the  Commission  in  January 
 1995. 
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 Diane  Griffin  Harmon  has  been  named  Assistant  Bureau  Chief  of  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau. 
 Since  March  2001,  Ms.  Harmon  has  served  as  Acting  Division  Chief  of  the  Network 
 Services  Division.  Prior  to  that  she  was  Deputy  Chief  of  the  Network  Services  Division.  Ms. 
 Harmon  was  responsible  for  numbering  issues,  including  numbering  resource  optimization. 


 Ms.  Harmon  joined  the  Commission  in  September  1996  as  a  staff  attorney  in 
 Enforcement  Division  of  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau.  Ms.  Harmon  received  her  J.  D.  from 
 Howard  University  School  of  Law  and  her  LL.  M.  from  Georgetown  University  Law  Center. 


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