FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                         Contact:  
  May 23, 2000                                                                        Rick Chessen, (202) 418-2300
                              
                              
  COMMISSIONER GLORIA TRISTANI ANNOUNCES PERSONNEL CHANGES
                              
                              
       Washington, D.C.    Commissioner Gloria Tristani announced the following
  personnel changes:  
  
  Rick Chessen, Senior Legal Advisor and Legal Advisor on mass media and cable
  issues, will be resigning his post.  
  
  Mr. Chessen will be replaced by William J. Friedman in mid-June.  Mr. Friedman is
  currently in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and previously served as the
  Agency Director for the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission and Counsel for
  the New Mexico Senate Judiciary Committee.  Mr. Friedman is a board-certified
  appellate specialist.  He received his B.S. from St. Johns College and his J.D. from the
  University of New Mexico Law School.    
  
       Deborah Klein has been appointed Interim Legal Advisor for mass media and cable
  issues.  Ms. Klein is currently the Chief of the Consumer Protection and Competition
  Division of the Cable Services Bureau, where she is responsible for program access, must
  carry, Satellite Home Viewer Improvement
  
  
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