Rosalind M. Parker serves as Chief
Counsel and Legislative Director for U.S. Congresswoman
Eleanor Holmes Norton where she oversees the Congresswoman's
legislative agenda and serves as her primary liaison
to the Office of the Mayor, D.C. City Council and
the White House.
As Of Counsel with the TEC Law Group, she specializes
in policy, regulatory and market analysis issues affecting
the commercial space, telecommunications and electric
utility industries. Her expertise covers the information
technology area, with a concentration in technology/Internet
access, distance learning and telemedicine. She has
also provided representation in communications regulation,
technology and entertainment related contracts as
well as other business development and intellectual
property protection matters.
Ms. Parker's clients include: Suitland Technology
Center, WorldSpace Corp., OpenNet Coalition, Evolution
Networks, Inc., Highland Park Broadcasting, PEPCO,
Electric USA, Allied Communications, Institute of
International Trade and Development, the T-Howard
Foundation, and the D.C. Technology Council.
During her tenure as Assistant Managing Principal
of the TEC Law Group, Ms. Parker expanded and coordinated
client servicing for the firm's technology, entertainment
and communications departments. She also served as
the firm's Chief Liaison with the Federal Communications
Commission; U.S. Senate Commerce Committee; U.S. House
Science and Commerce Committees; as well as the State,
Transportation, and Commerce Departments.
Ms. Parker developed her legal talents by joining
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood's Washington, DC law
office as the only associate member of its Communications
Law Group. There she worked directly with the Group's
partners by participating in a wide variety of regulatory
and transactional communications matters, including
broadcast, cellular, PCS, satellite, leased access
programming, and local exchange competition.
From 1997 to 1999, while serving under Committee Chairman
John McCain as Majority Counsel to the U.S. Senate
Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Science, Technology
and Space, Ms. Parker expanded her knowledge beyond
the communications arena into the space and information
technology arenas.
As part of her NASA oversight duties, she reviewed
and commented upon memorandums of understanding and
bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements that NASA
executed as part of its participation in the International
Space Station program and other international cooperative
space endeavors. In helping to draft report language
for the Commercial Space Act of 1998, she worked closely
with the senior space industry officials at FAA and
DOC as well as with representatives of several established
and emerging aerospace companies. Her technology background
includes studies on Internet access issues and the
NTIA-led inter-agency initiative examining Internet
domain name registration and high-speed Internet issues.
In December 1999, Ms. Parker made a presentation to
the RAND Corp. S&T Institute examining the current
satellite export licensing regime in the context of
the practical impact of recent State Department and
Congressional actions on the satellite manufacturing
and launch industries. She is a regular lecturer on
the role of U.S. Senate Committee staff and the legislative
process for the Georgetown University Government Affairs
Institute. She also periodically serves as an outside
consultant to the lobbying and consulting firms of
Bonner & Associates, Mattox Woolfolk and Plexus
Consulting Group.
Among her published works are: "Protecting American
Television Programming in Russia, China, Taiwan and
Japan" Hastings Comm/Ent (Winter 1995) and "A
Goal of 96' Communications Act Is To Foster Competition"
ABA Business Law Today (Sept./Oct. 1996).
Education
University of Virginia, 1991
J.D., Duke University, 1994
Bar Memberships
District of Columbia
Virginia
Professional/Organization Affiliations
Founding Chair, National Bar Association Communications Law Section
Federal Communications Bar Association
Women In Aerospace
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Power 40 Initiative
National Medical Association Community Medicine Section
NASA's Minority Business Resource Advisory Committee (MBRAC)
