NEWS
        
        July 9, 1997     
   
              ARI FITZGERALD NA     MED SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR TO
CHIEF OF THE INTE           RNATIONAL BUREAU
                      
     The FCC announced today that Ari Fitzgerald has been named Senior Legal Advisor to
the Chief of the International Bureau.  He will be working mainly on satellite issues.

     Fitzgerald joins the Commission from the United States Justice Department's Office of
Legal Counsel, where for three years he provided legal advice to the White House Counsel's
Office and the General Counsels of Executive branch agencies.

     Fitzgerald graduated magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard College in
1984.  From 1984 to 1985, he served as a Henry Luce Scholar in Asia. He received his J.D.
from Yale Law School in 1990. 

     Fitzgerald worked for two years prior to law school at the New York investment bank,
First Boston.  After law school, he clerked for federal judge, H. Lee Sarokin, served for three
years as Legal Counsel to Senator Bill Bradley, and worked for one year in the Washington,
D.C office of Sullivan and Cromwell.

     Fitzgerald lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife, Maria Carmona, a Senior
Research Associate at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, and their two
children, Pilar and Isel. 

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