May 23, 1994

              RACHELLE B. CHONG SWORN IN AS FCC COMMISSIONER

     After swift confirmation by the Senate on May 19, 1994,
Rachelle B. Chong was sworn in today as a member of the Federal
Communications Commission.  She is the first Asian-American to
serve on the Commission.

     A Republican, Ms. Chong was nominated by President Clinton
to fill the vacancy left by the Honorable Sherrie Marshall.  The
term began on July 1, 1992 and ends on June 30, 1997.

     For the last seven years, Ms. Chong was a partner with the
San Francisco office of the international law firm of Graham &
James.  She practiced telecommunications law before the
California Public Utilities Commission on behalf of cellular
telephone carriers, radio common carriers, and developers of
innovative telecommunications devices.  Prior to joining Graham &
James, she practiced law from 1984-1986 with the now-defunct
Washington, D.C. law firm of Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn &
Rossi.  There, she represented mass media clients and cellular
license applicants before the FCC.

     A 1984 graduate of Hastings College of the Law in San
Francisco, Ms. Chong was the editor-in-chief of Hastings COMM/ENT
Law Journal.  A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, she received dual B.A.
degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1981.  She is admitted to practice
law in the State of California and the District of Columbia.

     Ms. Chong is active in the telecommunications legal
community.  She is a member of the Governing Committee of the ABA
Forum Committee on Communications, a founding member of Women in
Telecommunications in Northern California, and a member of the
Federal Communications Bar Association.

     Ms. Chong has recently moved to Washington, D.C. from San
Francisco with her husband, Kirk Del Prete.


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