Mignon Letitia Clyburn was born on March 22,1962 and is an American former government official who served as a member of the Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2018.
19 Facts About Mignon Clyburn
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In 2019, Mignon Clyburn was hired by T-Mobile to advise the company on its merger with Sprint.
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Mignon Letitia Clyburn was born to Jim Clyburn and Emily Clyburn in Charleston, South Carolina on March 22,1962.
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Mignon Clyburn's younger sister, Jennifer Clyburn Reed, is a businesswoman who co-chairs the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission.
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In 1980, Clyburn graduated from W J Keenan High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
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From 1984 to 1998, Mignon Clyburn served as publisher, editor, and general manager of the Charleston, South Carolina-based The Coastal Times, a weekly African-American newspaper.
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From 1998 to 2009, Mignon Clyburn was a member of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, representing South Carolina's 6th congressional district.
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Mignon Clyburn was first elected to the post on July 1,1998, and served as the chair of the Commission from July 2002 to July 2004.
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Mignon Clyburn initially was appointed to serve the unexpired term of Jonathan Adelstein, who left the Commission to take up a post in the US Department of Agriculture.
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In July 2009, Mignon Clyburn was confirmed to a full five-year term; her appointment was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
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Mignon Clyburn began a second five-year term on the FCC in January 2013, having been nominated by Obama and confirmed by the Senate.
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In May 2013, Obama designated Mignon Clyburn as acting chairwoman of the FCC, a position she held until Tom Wheeler was appointed chairman in October 2013.
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Mignon Clyburn has been a vocal advocate of preserving net neutrality in the United States.
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In May 2017, Mignon Clyburn dissented from the Commission's issuance of a notice of proposed rulemaking to repeal net neutrality and strongly criticized the proposal.
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In December 2017, Mignon Clyburn dissented from the FCC's reversal of the 2015 Open Internet Order.
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Mignon Clyburn has clashed with Pai over the Lifeline Program for Low-Income Consumers, a federal program that has subsidized phone access for low-income Americans since the 1980s.
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In 2016, Mignon Clyburn led an effort to include broadband access in the program for the first time, in order to close the digital divide.
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In 2019, Mignon Clyburn was hired as an advisor to T-Mobile to advise on its merger with Sprint.
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Mignon Clyburn is a past chair of the YWCA of Greater Charleston.