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Meredith Attwell Baker is the president of CTIA - The Wireless Association, an industry trade group that represents the international wireless telecommunications industry. Baker was a member of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), nominated by President Obama and serving from 2009-2011. She also served in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) as a political appointee, and was subsequently named a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department by President George W. Bush in February 2007.〔 ==Early life and education== Baker is a native of Houston, Texas and graduate of the prestigious St. John's School. She was an exchange student during high school, attending a semester at Sidwell Friends School. (Coincidentally, she stayed with the family of Edward Lazarus, who was Chief of Staff during her partial term at the FCC.)〔 〕 Her father, Kirby Attwell, is well known in Houston. He was president of Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance, a subsidiary of Lincoln Consolidated, where he worked with the late former Texas Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Her great-great grandfather was Isaac Van Zandt, a political leader in the Republic of Texas, who was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to the United States from 1842 to 1845 in D.C. The Attwells have been long-time friends of the Baker and Bush political families.〔 〕 She has spent much of her life in the District of Columbia area. In addition to the high school semester spent at Sidwell, she studied journalism and Spanish at the private Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.〔 After graduation in 1990, she was hired at the legislative affairs office of the State Department in D.C. during the administration of President George H. W. Bush〔 (where her future father-in-law was then Secretary of State James A. Baker III).〔 Baker left to attend the University of Houston's law school, graduating in 1994.〔〔 While there, she worked at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.〔〔 She is a member of the State Bar of Texas.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meredith Attwell Baker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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