Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has announced the appointment of Lisa Hone as legal advisor to the chairman with effect from November with responsibility for wireline telecommunications issues.
Hone will replace Stephanie Weiner who currently serves as legal advisor.
“Lisa has been an outstanding asset here at the Commission for a number of years and I am grateful for her willingness to take on this new role,” said FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. “Her superb counsel has been essential to our work on many of our most important – and complex – policy issues.”
“Her leadership and wisdom on issues like E-rate and broadband consumer privacy have been invaluable. She’s a shining example of the expertise we have in this agency,” Wheeler added.
Hone has most recently served as an associate bureau chief in the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB). She has also served as a legal advisor for former Commissioner Michael J. Copps and as a deputy division chief in the Telecommunications Access Policy Division in WCB.
Prior to joining the staff of the FCC in 2010, Hone worked at the Federal Trade Commission where she conducted and supervised federal court litigation and rulemaking proceedings involving a wide array of consumer protection issues.
Hone has also worked in the U.S. Senate (on detail from the FTC) and in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. Ms. Hone earned her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and earned a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.
Commenting on the role played by Weiner, Wheeler said she has played a key role not only in crafting the Commission Open Internet decision, but in defending that decision in the Court of Appeals. “Stephanie’s work is a key reason that the Open Internet rules are in place today, protecting consumers and innovation,” he added.
