Corporate & Securities Law

Obama Nominates Julie Brill and Edith Ramirez to the FTC

By David Fischer

Reuters reports:

U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen Julie Brill, North Carolina’s top consumer watchdog, and attorney Edith Ramirez to fill two vacant spots on the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said on Monday.

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Brill became the senior deputy attorney general and chief of consumer protection and antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice in February 2009.  Ramirez has represented corporations like Mattel Inc and Northrop Grumman Corp. …

They would replace Republican Deborah Majoras, who stepped down in March 2008, and independent Pamela Jones Harbor, whose term ended in September.

Ms. Ramirez is a partner at Quinn Emanuel and Ms. Brill is the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection for the State of North Carolina; previously she was an Assistant Attorney General of the Consumer Protection Division of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office.  Ms. Brill is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School.

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Full post as published by Antitrust Review on November 17, 2009 (boomark / email).