Julius Genachowski
| Julius Genachowski | |
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Genachowski in 2008
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| 30th Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission | |
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In office June 29, 2009 – Nov 4, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Michael Copps (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Tom Wheeler |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 19, 1962 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) |
Martha Raddatz (m. 1991; div. 1997) Rachel Goslins (m. 2001) |
| Children | Jake Lilah Aaron |
| Alma mater |
Columbia University (B.A.) Harvard Law School (J.D.) |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Website | Official website |
Julius Genachowski (born August 19, 1962) is an American lawyer and businessman. He became the Federal Communications Commission Chairman on June 29, 2009. On March 22, 2013, he announced he would be leaving the FCC in the coming weeks. On January 6, 2014, it was announced that Genachowski had joined The Carlyle Group.
Genachowski was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and grew up in Great Neck, New York, the son of Adele and Azriel Genachowski. He attended yeshiva and studied in Israel. He entered Columbia College of Columbia University as a pre-med student, but earned a Bachelor of Arts in History (1985) magna cum laude. He was an Editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator. After working in Washington, D.C., for former New York Congressman Chuck Schumer, he entered Harvard Law School and earned a Juris Doctor (1991), also magna cum laude. He was a Notes Editor at the Harvard Law Review when his classmate Barack Obama was its president. Genachowski clerked for The Honorable Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justices William J. Brennan and David Souter at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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