At FCC, Chairman Ajit Pai names Wayne Leighton chief, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, where he was acting chief; and Pai adds (see here) Andy Huckaba to Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee as a representative of city of Lenexa, Kansas, where he's a City Council member; Huckaba is vice chair, FCC Intergovernmental Advisory Committee; local officials had been concerned only one of them was on the full BDAC (see 1706010054) ... Financial Services Roundtable hires Adam Palmer, ex-FireEye, for cybersecurity, fraud and technology division, as vice president-cybersecurity risk management.

National Retail Federation hires Monument Policy Group's Stephanie Martz as senior vice president-general counsel, effective in September, succeeding Mallory Duncan, retiring ... Snap hires Gina Woodworth, ex-Internet Association, as director-U.S. public policy ... Robins Kaplan adds as counsel from Pearson Simon Aaron Sheanin, who worked on consumer electronics and other cases, to Antitrust and Trade Regulation group in Silicon Valley ... Progressive Policy Institute hires include Dane Stangler, head-policy for Startup Genome, as director-policy innovation, and Paul Bledsoe, president of Bledsoe & Associates, as strategic adviser.

At Time Warner, Turner promotes Richard Warren to president-Turner Content Distribution, succeeding Coleman Breland, moving to new post as president-content experiences while continuing as president-TCM and FilmStruck ... Kroll hires Pierson Clair, ex-Maryman & Associates, as senior director-Cyber Security and Investigations practice ... Facewatch names as CEO Nick Fisher, business consultant to the facial recognition technology firm ... Tanium appoints Mark Wayland, ex-Salesforce, as chief revenue officer, new post ... Crown Media promotes Jane Gross to vice president of on-air promotion ... The Recording Academy elections include Terry Hemmings, Provident Music Group, as secretary/treasurer and Christine Albert, Swan Songs, chair emeritus.

Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., hires Samantha Greene, ex-Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, as communications director ... New Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long (see 1706210034) sworn in Friday by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, FEMA said; Robert Fenton, who was acting administrator, resumes duties as Region IX administrator ... Iboss, distributed gateway platform provider, names Ronald Chandler, UCLA Anderson School of Business, and Rick Miller, ex-Santa Ana (California) Unified School District, as senior education advisers on cybersecurity.

At CenturyLink and reporting to Jeff Storey, who recently was named president-chief operating officer effective once it buys Level 3 (see 1706010067), which is expected by end of Q3, and also effective at the deal's close: Edward Morche rejoining Level 3 effective July 5, as president-strategic enterprise, federal government and state government; Laurinda Pang president-global accounts management and international; Vernon Irvin president-small and midsize business; Lisa Miller president-wholesale, indirect and alliances; and Maxine Moreau president-consumer; plus Aamir Hussain executive vice president-product development, platforms and infrastructure; Clay Bailey senior vice president-transformation and integration, leading integration of CenturyLink and Level 3; and Richard Batelaan executive vice president-North America operations.

Squire Patton names as partner tech lawyer Simon Jones, ex-Eversheds Sutherland ... Committee to Protect Journalists hires from the Center for Inquiry as newly created Washington advocacy manager Michael De Dora Salesforce adds Niki Christoff, ex-Uber, as senior vice president-strategy and government relations ... AT&T moves Betsy Francis to oversee mobility and consumer markets in Mid-Atlantic states as vice president-general manager ... Vapor IO data center firm appoints Don Duet, ex-Goldman Sachs, president-chief operating officer.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai promotes Tom Sullivan to chief of the International Bureau, where he was acting chief ... Michael Platt, chief of staff to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., nominated to be an assistant secretary of commerce ... Tribune Media's Matt Cherniss, president-general manager, WGN America and Tribune Studios, steps down effective at month's end; TV industry veteran Gavin Harvey named interim president, WGN America ... AT&T Global Public Sector moves Rob Dapkiewicz to vice president-federal civilian, succeeding Mike Leff, named vice president-strategy and operations.

Fox Rothschild moves up Elizabeth Litten and Mark McCreary to co-chairs, Privacy and Data Security Practice ... Named to Office of the U.S. Trade Representative senior staff positions: Jamieson Greer, ex-Kirkland & Ellis, as chief of staff; Payne Griffin, ex-aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as deputy chief of staff; Pamela Marcus, ex-Skadden Arps, as deputy chief of staff-operations; Stephen Vaughn, ex-King & Spalding, as general counsel; Timothy Reif, who has been general counsel, as senior adviser; Christopher Jackson, ex-aide to Sessions, as assistant USTR-congressional affairs; Cameron Bishop, ex-aide to Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., as deputy assistant USTR-congressional affairs; and Emily Davis, ex-American Action Network/Congressional Leadership Fund, as deputy assistant USTR-public and media affairs.

​Philip Verveer, ex-U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy and FCC staffer, joins Venable's regulatory practice as senior counsel in Washington ... BT promotes Jennifer Artley to president-BT Americas ... Frontier Communications names John Maduri, ex-Cable & Wireless, executive vice president-consumer sales, marketing and product ... Presidential nomination sent to Senate: Jeffrey Gerrish to be a deputy U.S. trade representative-Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and industrial competitiveness.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai names Donald Stockdale, ex-Bates White Economic Consulting and former FCC staffer, chief of the Wireless Bureau; acting Bureau Chief will remain senior deputy bureau chief; James Schlichting, senior deputy bureau chief in the Wireless Bureau, moves to same position in International Bureau ... FCBA election results: Lee Petro, president-elect; Joshua Turner, secretary; Ari Fitzgerald, assistant secretary; and Natalie Roisman, assistant treasurer; Julie Kearney takes over as president and Megan Anne Stull as treasurer on July 1; elected to executive committee were Karen Brinkmann, Russell Hanser, Kristine Fargotstein, Diane Griffin Holland and Robyn Polashuk; Anne Swanson becomes delegate to the American Bar Association; new FCBA Foundation trustees are Justin Faulb, Jordan Goldstein, Johanna Thomas and Rebecca Murphy Thompson; Rachel Sanford Nemeth was elected Young Lawyers Committee co-chair ... Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium adds Erich Staudacher, AFCEA Europe, to advisory council, and Chris Ahsmann, Boeing Defense, Space & Security, to board of directors ... Commissioner Stephen McAlpine elected chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska ... Viacom promotions: Samantha Cooper to executive vice president-distribution and business development and Deena Demasi to executive vice president-distribution marketing; Andrew Borak moves up to senior vice president-distribution marketing and Sheri Weidner to senior vice president-distribution partnerships; Josh Clark, ex-Dish Network, becomes senior vice president-distribution partnerships, and Richelle Clements, ex-Credit Suisse, becomes senior vice president-deal finance ... New on Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Consumer Advisory Council: Sonny Popowsky, former Pennsylvania consumer advocate, and Christopher Winters, appointed by state Rep. Thomas Caltagirone (D), House Consumer Affairs Committee minority chair ... Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners named Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Sam Britton treasurer.