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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 1999 |
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LINDA KINNEY NAMED ASSISTANT BUREAU CHIEF/SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR ADVANCED SERVICES, FCC COMMON CARRIER BUREAU
Linda Kinney, common carrier advisor to Commissioner Susan Ness, has been named Assistant Bureau Chief/Special Advisor for Advanced Services, FCC Common Carrier Bureau. She will be leaving the Commissioner's office effective December 6,1999. Jordan Goldstein will replace Kinney as legal advisor to Commissioner Ness, handling common carrier issues.
Commissioner Ness remarked: "I am delighted Linda will focus on the Commission's efforts to encourage broadband deployment throughout the United States. Linda's exceptional organizational skills and excellent policy instincts will be of enormous value to the Common Carrier Bureau as it grapples with these novel questions of law and public policy. She will be missed in my office, but I look forward to working with her in her new capacity."
Before serving as common carrier advisor to Commissioner Ness, Kinney was the Assistant Division Chief in the Policy Division of the Common Carrier Bureau, where she worked on a wide variety of issues involving implementation of the 1996 Act. Prior to the Common Carrier Bureau,. Kinney served as an attorney-advisor in the Commercial Wireless Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Before coming to the Commission,. Kinney worked as an attorney in private practice with Graham & James in San Francisco and as legal counsel for Whalen & Company. Kinney received her J.D. from the University of Virginia and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College.