COMMISSIONER SUSAN NESS APPOINTS
                      MARY P. MCMANUS LEGAL ADVISOR


    Commissioner Susan Ness has appointed Mary P. McManus as her
Legal
Advisor, effective July 26, 1994.  Ms. McManus will concentrate
on spectrum auctions,
Cable Act implementation, and international issues.

    Ms. McManus is currently Minority Communications Counsel for
the Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.  She has
advised Members of
the Committee on communications policy, legislation and
legislative strategy.  Her
areas of responsibility have included pending communications
legislation proposing
comprehensive reform of the Communications Act of 1934, spectrum
auctions, and the
1992 Cable Act.

    Ms. McManus joined the Committee in 1991, after six years in
private practice
in the Washington office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher,
specializing in communications
law.  She has represented telecommunications and mass media
companies in
connection with federal and state regulatory matters as well as
acquisitions and other
transactions.  Prior to private practice, she was a staff
attorney in the FCC's Tariff
Division, where she worked on post-divestiture access tariffs.

    Ms. McManus received her B.A. degree in English from Trinity
College in
Washington, D.C.  She earned her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown
University Law
Center.

    Ms. McManus lives in Bethesda, Maryland.