By Wireless Week Staff
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced four senior appointments to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), including new bureau chief Ruth Milkman.
Milkman is currently special counsel, leading the transition effort in the chairman’s office. She served at the commission between 1986 and 1998 in a variety of positions, including deputy chief of the International and Common Carrier Bureaus and senior legal advisor to former chairman Reed Hundt, with responsibility for wireless issues and spectrum policy.
Other new senior members of the WTB team include Senior Deputy Chief James Schlichting, Deputy Chief Renee Roland Crittendon, and Deputy Chief John Leibovitz.
Schlichting has been at the FCC for nearly 24 years, most recently as deputy chief and acting chief of WTB. Crittendon has been at the FCC for eight years, most recently as chief of staff and senior legal advisor in the office of former Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, where she was responsible for spectrum, broadband, international and public safety issues.
Leibovitz was a staff member on the Presidential Transition Team, where he helped to coordinate the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform working group. Prior to the transition, he worked as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant in telecom with an emphasis on the wireless sector.