Mignon Clyburn
| Mignon L. Clyburn | |
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Clyburn in 2014
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| Federal Communications Commissioner | |
| Assumed office August 3, 2009 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
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| Born | March 22, 1962 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | University of South Carolina (B.A.) |
| Website | FCC Profile |
Mignon L. Clyburn (born March 22, 1962) is a Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since she was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 25, 2009, and sworn in on August 3, 2009. She was renominated for an FCC Commissioner on June 7, 2012, and her term as a commissioner will end in 2017. On May 20, 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama as Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.[1]
Commissioner Clyburn is the daughter of U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn and a member of the Federal Communications Commission.
Prior to her nomination to the FCC, she served for 11 years as the representative of South Carolina's 6th congressional district on the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC). She was sworn in for her first term in July 1998, and was reelected by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2002 and 2006. She served as the chair of the PSC from July 2002 through July 2004. [2]
In 2009 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.[3]
On November 21, 2014 she participated in a reddit AMA in which she was criticized by users for unsatisfactorily answering questions about how the FCC has handled net neutrality rulemaking. [4]
References
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External links
- Biography of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at the Federal Communications Commission
- Mignon L. Clyburn at Who Runs Gov at The Washington Post
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- WSJ article "Mignon Clyburn Nominated to FCC" by Amy Schatz. April 29, 2009
- Reddit AMA
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