Report: Biden Decides On Anna Gomez For FCC

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez to fill a vacant spot on the Federal Communications Commission.

Gomez's selection may be announced soon and would give the FCC its first Democratic majority since Biden was elected, ending a partisan deadlock at 2-2, according to a Bloomberg report, which cited a person familiar.

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The Biden nomination comes after the president's former nominee Gigi Sohn, withdrew her nomination in early March. Sohn, a former Democratic FCC official, was first nominated to the panel's board by the White House in October 2021.

Gomez has been viewed a possible frontrunner to fill the fifth commissioner seat at the FCC after Sohn withdrew.

Gomez is a former NTIA deputy assistant secretary (2009-13) who in January became a Senior Advisor for International Information and Communications Policy at the U.S. State Department.

Gomez earlier served for over a decade in various management positions at the FCC, and on the White House staff under President Bill Clinton. After leaving the NTIA, she was a partner at Wiley, a Washington law firm. Gomez is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and earned her law degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Gomez would be the first hispanic female to sit on the FCC since 2001, according to the National Hispanic Media Coalition. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus had previously urged Biden to appoint a Latino to the FCC.