January 19, 1999
                                  
        ROSALIND ALLEN TO BECOME DIRECTOR OF LEGAL ANALYSIS 
                  IN THE OFFICE OF PLANS AND POLICY
                                  
     Rosalind Allen will be joining the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy as Director of Legal
Analysis. In her new role, Allen will work on agency-wide issues that cut across industry and regulatory
boundaries including mergers, competition and convergence.  

     "Roz has substantial management and policy expertise with telecommunications and competition
issues and I'm pleased she has agreed to take this position," said Chairman William Kennard. 

     Since January 1996, Allen has served as Deputy Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau.  In this role Allen oversaw the Bureau's Commercial Wireless Division and the Public Safety
and Private Wireless Division and also served as Senior Policy Advisor to Bureau Chiefs Michele
Farquhar and Dan Phythyon.  Allen previously served as Chief of the Wireless Bureau's Commercial
Wireless Division and has served in various other positions in the Wireless Bureau since joining the
FCC in 1987, including interim legal advisor to Commissioner Ness.

      Additionally, in her new role Allen will continue to serve as the Commission's Liaison to the
Local and State Government Advisory Committee (LSGAC).  Chairman Kennard named Allen as the
LSGAC liaison in March 1998.  In this role Allen serves as the Commission's primary contact for issues
that involve local and state governments.  In her role as LSGAC liaison Allen helped facilitate the
August 1998  historic agreement by local and state governments and wireless industries on facilities
siting issues.

     Prior to joining the Commission in 1987, Allen was engaged in the private practice of law at Reed,
Smith, Shaw & McClay, where she specialized in communications and intellectual property law.

   Allen graduated with a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981.  She received her B.A.
in English and Biopsychology cum laude from Vassar College in 1978 where she was elected to
membership in Phi Beta Kappa.  

     She lives in Potomac, Maryland with her husband John and her daughters Rachel and Nora.

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