Edward "Smitty" Smith

Edward "Smitty" Smith
Personal details
Born	1980 Washington, D.C. United States
Political party	Democratic
Occupation	Attorney
Website	Smitty for AG

Edward H. "Smitty" Smith II (born 1980) is an American lawyer. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Attorney General of the District of Columbia in 2014 and a former adviser to the FCC.

Smith was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in the working-classneighborhoods of Congress Heights and LeDroit Park. His family moved to the District of Columbia in 1943 and he is the third generation to live there. His father taught physics at Ballou High School and his mother worked in the federal government.

After winning scholarships to attend the Beauvoir School and the Potomac School, Smith earned a Bachelor's degree with honors from Brown University, where he was captain of the track team, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Smith began his legal career as an associate attorney at the Washington, D.C. law firm Hogan & Hartson. After several years with the firm, he left to work on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. After the election, he was named Deputy General Counsel of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, and then joined the Department of Commerce, where he worked on the economic development of low-income communities.

At the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Smith was named Program Director of the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. Under his leadership, and with funds allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the SBDDGP established the $4.7 billion Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, which extended and developed broadband services to reach rural and underserved areas, improved broadband access for public safety agencies, and provided financial assistance to low-income families to facilitate the transition from analog to digital television.

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