Obama Taps Strickling For NTIA
President Barack Obama's choice to shepherd the National Telecommunications and Information Administration through the ongoing national digital television transition is Lawrence Strickling, a technology policy expert who served as policy coordinator for his presidential campaign. In that role Strickling oversaw two dozen domestic policy committees and was responsible for technology and telecommunications issues. Prior to joining the campaign, Strickling was chief regulatory and compliance officer at Broadwing Communications, which was acquired by Level 3 Communications in 2007.
From 1998-2000, Strickling served as chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau and prior to that was associate general counsel and chief of the FCC's Competition Division. During his tenure at the FCC, Strickling developed and enforced rules to foster competition and protect consumers in the telecommunications marketplace, the White House said in an e-mail. He also served senior roles at Allegiance Telecom and CoreExpress and was a partner at the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. If confirmed by the Senate, Strickling will join former Sprint-Nextel executive Anna Gomez at NTIA. She was named deputy assistant secretary earlier this year.
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