Julie Veach is Associate General Counsel, focusing on administrative and general law issues. Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel in 2009, she served as Deputy Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau, where she led many of the Bureau’s efforts involving broadband, competition, and data gathering and analysis. Ms. Veach held a variety of other positions in the Wireline Competition Bureau. Before joining the FCC in 2001, Ms. Veach was an associate with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and she clerked for the Hon. Michael S. Kanne of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She received her B.A. from Purdue University in 1993 and graduated magna cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in 1997.