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 FCC  WIRELINE  COMPETITION  BUREAU  ANNOUNCES  FRONT  OFFICE  PERSONNEL  APPOINTMENTS 
 Dailey  and  Robinson  Promoted  to  Legal  Counsel  to  the  Bureau  Chief 
 Washington,  D.  C.  –  William  Maher,  Chief  of  the  Federal  Communications  Commission’s  (FCC)  Wireline  Competition  Bureau  (WCB),  today  made  the  following 
 personnel  announcements: 
 Margaret  Dailey  has  been  promoted  Legal  Counsel  to  the  Bureau  Chief.  In  this  position,  Ms.  Dailey  will  advise  the  Bureau  Chief  on  pricing  policy  and  other  matters. 
 Prior  to  this  position,  Ms.  Dailey  served  as  an  Attorney  Advisor  in  the  Pricing  Policy  Division,  where  she  worked  on  a  variety  of  pricing-  related  matters,  including  cost  recovery 
 for  local  number  portability  and  number  pooling,  and  federal  preemption  of  state  interconnection  proceedings. 


 Before  joining  the  FCC  in  December  2000,  Ms.  Dailey  was  Assistant  General  Counsel  for  American  Cellular  Corporation,  a  wireless  company  doing  business  in  ten 
 states  under  the  CellularOne  trademark.  Prior  to  that,  she  served  as  Assistant  Litigation  Counsel  at  MCI,  and  Associate  in  the  litigation  section  of  the  D.  C.  office  of  Morgan, 
 Lewis  &  Bockius.  She  received  her  J.  D.  from  Georgetown  University  and  her  B.  F.  A.  from  Cornell  University. 


 Vickie  (Byrd)  Robinson  has  been  promoted  to  Legal  Counsel  to  the  Bureau  Chief.  In  this  position,  Ms.  Robinson  will  advise  the  Bureau  Chief  on  universal  service, 
 numbering,  and  other  matters.  Prior  to  this  position,  Ms.  Robinson  was  an  Attorney  Advisor  in  the  Telecommunications  Access  Policy  Division,  where  she  worked  on  issues 
 relating  to  the  receipt  of  universal  service  support  in  competitive  areas,  the  payment  of  universal  service  contributions,  and  the  high-  cost  universal  service  support  mechanisms. 


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 Before  joining  the  FCC  in  September  2001,  Ms.  Robinson  was  an  Associate  at  Swidler  Berlin  Shereff  Friedman,  LLP  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  in  their  telecommunications 
 practice  group.  Ms.  Robinson  received  her  J.  D.  magna  cum  laude  from  Howard  University  School  of  Law  in  1999  and  her  B.  A.  magna  cum  laude  from  Howard  University 
 in  1996. 


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