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Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, AT&T

Dorothy Attwood is Senior Vice President – Public Policy and the Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T Services, Inc.  Attwood leads the development and implementation of AT&T’s strategic international, federal and state public policy initiatives across all AT&T lines of business – including wireless, Internet, video and wireline services – in the increasingly fast-paced, converging and dynamic communications marketplace.  As Chief Privacy Officer, Attwood has oversight responsibility for the development and implementation of enterprise-wide policies governing the privacy of customer information.

Prior to joining the company in November of 2002, Attwood spent six years at the Federal Communications Commission in a variety of senior policy-making positions, advising Chairmen in both Democratic and Republican administrations.  Attwood was the Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman William Kennard on all common carrier, enforcement and consumer matters, and served as chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau under both Chairman Kennard and Chairman Michael Powell.  She also served as chief of the Enforcement Division of the Common Carrier Bureau.

Before joining the FCC, Attwood was a partner in the Philadelphia law firm Cozen & O'Conner, specializing in commercial litigation and she clerked for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Attwood received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a Master’s Degree from The Wharton School and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  Attwood resides in San Antonio, Texas, with her two children.