June 15, 1998







                                  
         VICTORIA F. PHILLIPS NAMED CHIEF, LEGAL BRANCH OF 
             POLICY & RULES DIVISION, MASS MEDIA BUREAU

         Victoria F. Phillips has been named Chief of the Legal Branch in the Mass
Media Bureau's Policy & Rules Division.  

         Ms. Phillips joined the Commission in 1994 as an attorney in the Office of
General Counsel.  Most recently she served as a senior attorney in the Legal Branch of
the Mass Media Bureau's Policy & Rules Division where she worked on a number of
Commission proceedings involving digital television and other mass media issues.  

         Prior to joining the Commission, she served as Assistant General Counsel of
the National Endowment for the Humanities and practiced communications law as an
associate at the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C.  Phillips clerked
for Judge Edward S. Northrop of the U.S. District Court in Maryland.  She received her
B.A. from Smith College in 1982 and a J.D. with honors from the Washington College of
Law at American University in 1988.  She is a member of the District of Columbia,
Massachusetts and Maryland bars.


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