Raimirez Sworn In At FTC

Edith Ramirez was sworn in Monday as the newest member of the Federal Trade Commission.

President Obama nominated Ramirez on Sept. 25. She was confirmed by the Senate March 3.

Ramirez has been a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in L.A., where she was an intellectual property and antitrust competition attorney.

Like the president, Ramirez is a Harvard Law graduate and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.