April
29, 1994


RUTH M. MILKMAN NAMED SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR TO CHAIRM   AN HUNDT


       Chairman Reed Hundt has named Ruth Milkman as his Senior
Legal Advisor, effective
May 2, 1994.

       Milkman has served since May 1990 as Deputy Chief of the
Policy and Program
Planning Division of the Common Carrier Bureau where she worked
with the Division Chief
to develop policies for regulation of the domestic
telecommunications industry.  She has also
served as a member of the Commission's task force analyzing
legislative telecommunications
reform proposals.

       Prior to being appointed Deputy Chief, Milkman served as
Special Assistant to the
General Counsel and as an Attorney Advisor in the Policy and
Program Planning Division. 
She first worked for the Commission in 1984 as a law clerk in the
Offices of Commissioner
Mimi Weyforth Dawson and the Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau.

       Milkman received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard
University in 1981.  She
earned a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1985. 
Milkman clerked for
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit.

       "Ruth's experience at the Commission will make her a
valuable member of my staff,"
Hundt said today.  "As Senior Legal Advisor, I and the rest of my
staff will be looking to her
for advice on a host of issues coming before the Commission.  I
know that in addition to my
own staff, other offices throughout the Commission look forward
to working with her in this
role."


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