Before joining NTIA, Ms. Baker was Vice President at the firm of Williams Mullen Strategies where she focused on telecommunications, intellectual property, and international trade issues. Earlier, she held the position as Senior Counsel to Covad Communications from 2000 to 2002, and Director of Congressional Affairs at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) from 1998 to 2000. Ms. Baker worked at the U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit in Houston and later at the law firm of DeLange and Hudspeth, L.L.P. From 1990 to 1992, she worked in the Legislative Affairs Office of the U.S. Department of State in Washington.

Let me wildly guess at her policy positions...

said by Matt :

Not too bad. She doesn't seem to have any obvious ties to big business and her credentials convey she may be technically literate.

Among other things, it is notable for having acquired the storied Janus-Merritt Strategies, the lobbying firm of Grover Norquist and David Safavian, in 2002.

said by nasadude :

I didn't say she was guilty of anything. I just pointed out the firm at which she is Vice President doesn't seem to have pro-consumer leanings and appears to do a lot of their business with the industries the FCC regulates.

said by Matt :

I think you'll find that is true of anyone appointed. We don't want another Michael Brown now do we?

said by SuperWISP :

And it'd be really scary if the FCC went berserk on regulating the Internet, as it tried to do when it illegally sanctioned Comcast for maintaining its quality of service.