NEWS                                    December 10, 1996



CHAIRMAN HUNDT ANNOUNCES
         STAFF PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENT
    
     FCC Chairman Reed Hundt announced today that he will promote Jackie Chorney to
serve as Acting Senior Legal Advisor and will promote Julius Genachowski to the position of
Chief Counsel.  Hundt also announced the detail of Tom Boasberg who will serve as his
Legal Advisor.  Chorney will replace John Nakahata, who will be detailed to the
Competition Division in the FCC's Office of General Counsel.  

     Jackie Chorney has served as Legal Advisor to Chairman Hundt since February.  She
previously served as Assistant Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and as
Senior Counsel in the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy, where she was instrumental in
planning for and implementing the FCC's first spectrum auction.  Since joining the
Commission in 1992, Chorney has also worked in the Office of General Counsel and Mass
Media Bureau.

     Prior to joining the FCC in 1992, Chorney practiced corporate law with Proskauer,
Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn.  She received a B.A. in Political Science and a J.D. from
Columbia College.

     Julius Genachowski has served as Counsel to Chairman Hundt since April 1995.  He
joined the FCC in November 1994 as Special Counsel to General Counsel William E.
Kennard.  Prior to joining the FCC, Genachowski was a Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice
David H. Souter and, before that, to retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. 
He was also a Law Clerk to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit.  Genachowski worked in Congress on the select committee investigating
the Iran-Contra Affair and as Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary to Congressman
Charles E. Schumer.

     Genachowski received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a
B.A. in History, magna cum laude, from Columbia College.

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     Tom Boasberg has served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Chief of the International
Bureau since June.  Boasberg previously worked at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison.  A fluent speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, he focused on
telecom projects in China during his work at Paul, Weiss and helped negotiate one of the
first major wireless projects undertaken by a U.S. company in China.  Prior to joining Paul,
Weiss, he worked in the communications group at the law firm of Covington & Burling.

     Previously, Boasberg served as chief of staff to the chairman of Hong Kong's largest
political party and helped draft Hong Kong's election laws and its Bill of Rights.  He has
written several articles on the constitutional and political issues relating to Hong Kong's
transfer of sovereignty to China in 1997.  He graduated with distinction from Stanford Law
School and graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors in History from Yale
University.  At Yale, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and selected as a Harry S Truman
Scholar. 

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