Carolyn Brandon
Carolyn Brandon joined the Center after six years as Vice President, Policy for CTIA, the Wireless Association. Working with CTIA’s more than 200 members, Carolyn was responsible for the development of strategic, national public policies that further the goals of the commercial wireless industry. In 2005, she led the industry to a successful, national launch of Wireless AMBER Alerts, in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
Before joining CTIA, Ms. Brandon was a partner in the Washington, D.C. telecommunications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP where for 12 years she represented wireless telecommunications providers in proceedings and transactions before the Federal Communications Commission, state public utility commissions, U.S. bankruptcy courts and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Voted one of the “Top Ten Women in Wireless in 2008” by the publishers of Wireless Week, Ms. Brandon has served on the Advisory Board of the TechPolicy Summit, and she was selected to represent the wireless industry on the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee, an official Federal Advisory Committee. Carolyn has served on the Executive Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association and is currently serving her second term on the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar Association’s Computer and Telecommunications Committee. Her pro bono activities include representing prospective adoptive parents before the DC Superior Court, Family Division and serving as pro bono Counsel to the Leadership Foundation to Keep Children Alcohol Free.
Ms. Brandon graduated cum laude from the University of Scranton, Scranton Pennsylvania, and received a JD from the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America where she graduated from the Institute for Communications Law Studies and served as Associate Editor, Catholic University Law Review. She has authored several articles regarding wireless telecommunications law and policy, has been a recurring contributor to the Practicing Law Institute, and is a frequent speaker on telecom policy panels.
