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                                            April 6, 1998
                                                         
           MELISSA WAKSMAN NAMED DEPUTY CHIEF,
    ACCOUNTING POLICY DIVISION, COMMON CARRIER BUREAU 
                                                         
   
        Melissa Waksman has been appointed Deputy Chief of the Accounting Policy
   Division of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau.  
   
         Since June 1995 Waksman has served as a Senior Attorney in the Policy and
   Program and Planning Division of the Common Carrier Bureau.  In that capacity, she
   worked on issues relating to the implementation of various provisions of the
   Telecommunications Act of 1996, including the local competition and BOC entry
   provisions.  Most recently, Waksman has been on detail to the Universal Service Branch,
   serving as Team Leader of the Working Group that is preparing the Universal Service
   Report to Congress.  Prior to that detail she worked as interim common carrier legal
   advisor to Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth.  
   
        Before joining the Common Carrier Bureau, Waksman worked in the Consumer
   Protection Division of the Cable Services Bureau.  Prior to coming to the FCC in 1994, 
   she an associate in the Regulatory Department of the law firm of Graham & James in San
   Francisco.  
   
        Waksman received a J.D. from the University of California, at Berkeley, in 1989. 
   She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
   
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