Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz has appointed six senior staff members with extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. The appointments are as follows:
David Vladeck, who will serve as director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, has been a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching federal courts, government processes, civil procedure, and First Amendment litigation. He co-directed the Center’s Institute for Public Representation, a clinical law program for civil rights, civil liberties, First Amendment, open government, and regulatory litigation. Vladeck previously spent almost 30 years with Public Citizen Litigation Group, including 10 years as director. He has argued a number of First Amendment and civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 60 cases before the federal courts of appeal and state courts of last resort.
