M. Anne Swanson

Anne Swanson joined Dow Lohnes as a Member in 1997. With over thirty years as a communications lawyer, she has worked on a wide variety of FCC rulemaking proceedings, mergers, and financial transactions involving communications companies and equipment manufacturers. She has also specialized in defending clients against FCC enforcement actions and advising clients on complex spectrum and regulatory issues.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Swanson served as law clerk to federal judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. After her first year in law school, she served as a summer legal intern to the FCC Chairman. Prior to attending graduate and law schools, Ms. Swanson spent a year at the White House as editor of the President's daily news summary and during college served as an intern with the National Security Council staff.

Ms. Swanson's professional activities have included her service as president of the Federal Communications Bar Association ("FCBA") as well as membership on the National Advisory Board of the Catholic University Columbus School of Law's CommLaw Conspectus. She has served as the FCBA's president, president-elect, delegate to the American Bar Association, treasurer and assistant treasurer as well as the chairman of a number of its committees. Ms. Swanson also served a three-year term as a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications. She is a frequent panelist at communications industry and continuing legal education seminars.