Milwaukee Professionals Association

MEET THE FCC COMMISSIONERS

There are

Posted: Wednesday, August 9, 2006
by
Mary Glass, Chair/CEO
Campaign Neighborhood - CFNBA

Commissioner
Michael J. Copps
Nominated for a second term November 9, 2005; confirmed December 21, 2005; sworn in January 3, 2006. Sworn in for his first term on May 31, 2001.

Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at a Fortune 500 company and at a major trade association. Before coming to Washington, Copps was a professor of U.S. History at Loyola University of the South. Copps received a B.A. from Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is from Milwaukee.

IN MILWAUKEE

Commissioner Copps is scheduled to come to Milwaukee in September for a Hearing on Acess to Media. For more information, contact www.freepress.net.

When Commissioner Copps was in Milwaukee earlier this year at the Annual Telecommunication Conference, Marquette University; he made the following comment about the DIGITAL DIVIDE: "We must see that the Inner City and Rural areas are not left behind".

Come back soon for COMMISSIONER KATHLEEN ABERNATHY. She too is from Milwaukee.