Jonathan Adelstein

Jonathan S. Adelstein was sworn in as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 3, 2002, and sworn in for a new five-year term on Dec. 6, 2004. Before joining the FCC, Adelstein served for 15 years as a staff member in the U.S. Senate. For the last seven years, he was a senior legislative aide to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), where he advised Senator Daschle on telecommunications, financial services, transportation and other key issues. Previously, he served as a professional staff member to Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman David Pryor (D-Ark.), including an assignment as a special liaison to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and as a legislative assistant to Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D-Mich.). Prior to his service in the Senate, Adelstein held a number of academic positions, including: teaching fellow in the Department of History, Harvard University; teaching assistant in the Department of History, Stanford University; and communications consultant to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Adelstein received a B.A. with Distinction in political science from Stanford University, an M.A. in history from Stanford University, and studied at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.