President Obama has announced his intention to nominate Mignon L. Clyburn of South Carolina as an FCC Commissioner. Here is her bio, taken from the White House Web site.

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Mignon L. Clyburn, Nominee for Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Mignon Clyburn has been a member of the Public Service Commission of South Carolina since 1998.  The Public Service Commission regulates South Carolina’s investor owned public utilities, including providers of telecommunications services.  The South Carolina General Assembly elected Clyburn as a Commissioner representing the Sixth Congressional District in May of 1998, and she has been re-elected three times.  She chaired the Commission from 2002 to 2004.  Clyburn is a past chair of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.  She is presently the chair of the Washington Action Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).  Clyburn also serves on NARUC’s Audit Committee and Utilities Market Access Partnership Board.  Clyburn graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking, Finance & Economics in 1984.  Before her election to the Public Service Commission she spent fourteen years as the Publisher and General Manager of The Coastal Times, a weekly newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina.