FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: 
  March 8, 2000                              Mike Balmoris at (202) 418-0253
                                     Email:  mbalmori@fcc.gov
                              
              JACK ZINMAN NAMED LEGAL COUNSEL 
             TO THE COMMON CARRIER BUREAU CHIEF
                              
  Washington, D.C.   Jack Zinman has been appointed Legal Counsel to the
  Common Carrier Bureau Chief, Lawrence Strickling, of the Federal Communications
  Commission.  Mr. Zinman will advise the Bureau Chief on universal service and
  broadband issues.
   
  Since November 1998, Mr. Zinman has worked in the Accounting Policy Division
  of the Common Carrier Bureau.  His primary responsibilities included high-cost universal
  service support and administration of the universal service fund.  He also served as Federal
  Staff Chair of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service.  Mr. Zinman  previously
  worked in the Commercial Wireless Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau,
  where he handled issues concerning spectrum auctions and licensing.
  
  Before joining the Commission in 1997, Mr. Zinman served as a staff attorney for
  Justice Sandra Schultz Newman of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and as an
  associate at the litigation firm of Margolis Edelstein in Philadelphia.
      
  Mr. Zinman received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia's
  McIntire School of Commerce in 1991, and a J.D. from the Villanova University School
  of Law in 1994.
  
  
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