New Nominees for CPB Board

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:

Bruce M. Ramer, Nominee for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Bruce M. Ramer is a Partner at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc., a firm specializing in entertainment and media matters. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California (USC) and Chair of the USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business. He is a member of the Board of Councilors of the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the USC Gould School of Law, and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Mr. Ramer is Founding Chairman and member of the Board of Trustees of the Geffen Playhouse, a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Herrhausen Institute for International Dialogue. Mr. Ramer served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from October 2008 until December 2012, serving as Chair the last two years. He was a board member of KCET in Los Angeles from 1992 to 2004, and served as its Chair from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Ramer received an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School.

Dr. Jannette L. Dates, Nominee for Member, Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Dr. Jannette L. Dates was Dean of the Howard University School of Communications from 1993 to 2012. Previously, she served as Associate Dean from 1987 to 1993, having first joined the University as an Assistant Professor in 1981. From 1993 to 1998, she was a guest speaker on the National Public Radio shows, All Things Considered and On the Media. From 1992 to 1993, she was a Freedom Forum Media Studies Center Fellow at Columbia University, and from 1979 to 1989, she was a panelist on Square Off. Dr. Dates was an anchor and executive producer for the series The Negro in U.S. History from 1973 to 1974, and co-anchor on the weekly radio program North Star from 1972 to 1973. She served as a member of the Baltimore Mayor’s Cable Communication Commission from 1988 to 1994. Dr. Dates received a B.S. from Coppin State College, an M.Ed. from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park.