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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:  April  4,  2002  Michael  Balmoris  202-  418-  0253 
 Email:  mbalmori@  fcc.  gov 


 FCC  WIRELINE  COMPETITION  BUREAU  ANNOUNCES  PERSONNEL  PROMOTIONS  FOR  TELECOMMUNICATIONS  ACCESS  POLICY  DIVISION 
 Washington,  DC  –  Today,  Dorothy  Attwood,  Bureau  Chief  of  the  Federal  Communications  Commission’s  (FCC)  Wireline  Competition  Bureau,  made  the  following  personnel  announcements. 
 William  Scher  has  been  named  Assistant  Chief  of  the  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division  (formerly  the  Accounting  Safeguards  Division)  of  the  Wireline  Competition  Bureau. 
 Since  January  2000,  Mr.  Scher  was  a  senior  attorney  in  the  Accounting  Policy  Division  of  the  former  Common  Carrier  Bureau.  He  has  worked  on  various  issues  related  to  high-  cost  universal 
 service  support  and  was  the  team  leader  on  the  MAG  Order.  Before  joining  the  Accounting  Policy  Division,  Mr.  Scher  was  an  attorney  in  the  Audio  Services  Division  of  the  Mass  Media  Bureau. 


 Before  joining  the  FCC  in  1997,  Mr.  Scher  was  an  associate  at  the  litigation  firm  of  Mitterhoff  and  Henrichson  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  a  staff  attorney  at  the  U.  S.  Court  of  Appeals  for 
 the  Ninth  Circuit,  and  a  judicial  clerk  for  the  Honorable  Glenn  T.  Harrell  of  the  Maryland  Court  of  Appeals.  He  received  a  B.  A.  from  the  University  of  Albany  and  a  J.  D.  from  George  Washington 
 University  Law  School. 
 Cheryl  Callahan  has  been  named  an  Assistant  Division  Chief  in  the  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division  of  the  Wireline  Competition  Bureau.  Since  August  1999,  Ms.  Callahan  was 
 a  senior  attorney  in  the  former  Network  Services  Division.  She  has  served  as  the  Designated  Federal  Official  to  the  North  American  Numbering  Council,  a  federal  advisory  committee  to  the 
 Commission  on  numbering  matters.  Ms.  Callahan  also  has  worked  on  various  issues  related  to  telecommunications  relay  services,  abbreviated  dialing,  numbering  resource  optimization,  and  local 
 number  portability. 
 Before  joining  the  FCC,  Ms.  Callahan  was  a  senior  attorney  at  the  New  York  Public  Service  Commission  where  she  worked  on  telecommunications  policy,  including  numbering,  slamming, 
 local  competition,  and  universal  service.  She  received  a  B.  S.  in  Economics  from  Rutgers  University,  New  Brunswick,  and  a  J.  D.  from  Union  University,  Albany  Law  School. 


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