FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 1, 2000
                                                  

       WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU ANNOUNCES 
       COMMERCIAL WIRELESS DIVISION PERSONNEL ACTION 
                              
         The following personnel action has been announced in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's
Commercial Wireless Division: 
     
Lauren Kravetz Named Special Counsel:
     
     Lauren H. Kravetz has been named Special Counsel in the Wireless Bureau's
Commercial Wireless Division.  Since March 1999 she has served as an Attorney-Advisor
in the Policy and Rules Branch of the Division, leading the Division's review of major
transactions involving wireless licenses.  Prior to joining the Commission, Kravetz was
senior associate at the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, and she has
also worked at the law firms of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey and Heron, Burchette,
Ruckert & Rothwell.  Kravetz has served as President of the Washington, D.C. chapter of
American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) and recently completed a term as a
National Director of AWRT.  Kravetz holds a J.D. from Georgetown University, where
she was a member of the Editorial Board of the American Criminal Law Review, and a
B.A, magna cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles.
     
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