FCC Announces Staff Changes in Office of General Counsel

The Federal Communications Commission announced staff changes in the Office of General Counsel. David Gossett will serve as Chief of Staff, Ashley Boizelle will succeed Gossett as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, and Michael Carlson will succeed Boizelle as Deputy General Counsel for Administrative Law.

Gossett has been at the FCC for five years, previously serving as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation in the Office of General Counsel. Before coming to the FCC, Gossett was assistant general counsel for litigation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a partner at Mayer Brown LLP. Boizelle previously served as Deputy General Counsel for Administrative Law at the FCC for two years. She also worked at the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Carlson previously served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel. Prior to joining the FCC, Carlson worked at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, a Washington, DC law firm specializing in telecommunications, and clerked for the Honorable Deborah Cook of the Sixth  Circuit. Carlson also has prior experience as a senior advisor at Microsoft, where he worked for the Chief Strategy Officer, and as an attorney in the US intelligence community.