Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell announced that Christine Kurth will join his staff as Policy Director and Wireline Counsel. Nick Alexander, who has served as Commissioner McDowell's Legal Advisor for wireline issues since July 2008, will be joining the leadership team of the Wireline Competition Bureau.
Kurth was most recently Republican Staff Director and General Counsel for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and joined the Committee in 2005 as Deputy Staff Director. For the last six years of her Capitol Hill career, she has led or been intimately involved in drafting and negotiating legislation to keep up with the ever-changing communications landscape. Laws enacted during her tenure included Internet Tax moratorium, broadband mapping, public safety interoperability, online safety, spectrum relocation, and the digital television transition.
Prior to joining the Commerce Committee, Ms. Kurth served as Deputy General Counsel for the Senate Committee on Appropriations from 2003 to 2005. She has also served as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and as Professional Staff Member to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Before her nine years of service on Capitol Hill, Ms. Kurth litigated contempt cases in federal court on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Chief Judge James K. Singleton in the U.S. District Court in Alaska. Ms. Kurth received a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in political science and a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Valparaiso University.
