FCC Deputy Chief Information Officer-Technology and Resiliency Christine Calvosa to be acting FCC CIO when David Bray leaves (see this section of the June 6 issue of this publication); also at the commission, Sanford Williams moves up to director-Office of Communications Business Opportunity, where he was acting director ... Christensen O'Connor adds patent attorneys from Blakely Sokoloff, as partners James Go and Cory Claassen, and as associates Daniel Hutchins and Denton McAlister.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) names businessman and ex-state Rep. Damon Baldone (D) a commissioner for the state Public Service Commission; he succeeds Commissioner Scott Angelle, resigned; Baldone serves until a special election ... Office of Science and Technology Policy alumna Renee Gregory joins Willkie Farr as counsel, Communications & Media Department ... New at Uber: Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei as senior vice president-leadership and strategy, reporting to CEO Travis Kalanick and partnering with Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency hires outgoing FCC Chief Information Officer David Bray as director of NGIA's new Office of Ventures and Innovation; he tells us he will start the job probably in late July ... Telecommunications Industry Association names Wes Johnston, ex-Gores Group, CEO; David Heard had been interim CEO and remains chairman ... USTelecom hires from Frontier Communications Jeremy Pederson as vice president-government affairs ... CTIA hires as directors-cybersecurity: Rob Cantu, ex-Energy Department, now in the Department of Technology and Cybersecurity, and Melanie Tiano, ex-FCC Enforcement Bureau, also for privacy, in the Office of the General Counsel.

With Vanita Gupta, ex-head of DOJ Civil Rights Division, starting as president-CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Gupta adds Kristine Lucius, ex-Senate Judiciary Committee staff, as executive vice president for policy; Seema Nanda, ex-Department of Labor, as executive vice president-chief operating officer; and Ashley Allison, ex-White House Office of Public Engagement, as senior adviser; Lucius, Nanda and Allison join Ellen Buchman, executive vice president-field and communications, on senior leadership team; Gupta succeeds Wade Henderson, stepped down effective May 31; also stepping down are Karen Lawson, executive vice president-COO, and Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president-policy.

Once CenturyLink buys Level 3, acquirer says, Level 3 CEO-President Jeff Storey will join the telco as president-chief operating officer, and he's among the Level 3 directors joining the buyer's board; Glen Post remains CEO of CenturyLink; Storey is expected to succeed Post as CEO effective Jan. 1, 2019; then Post will become executive chairman; directly reporting to Post at closing are executive vice presidents: Stacey Goff, general counsel-chief administrative officer; Sunit Patel, chief financial officer; and Scott Trezise, human resources; Harvey Perry advances to chairman, succeeding William Owens, retired; and Bruce Hanks, who moves up to vice chairman ... Wilkinson Barker adds recently retired CenturyLink Vice President-Federal Policy and Regulatory Affairs Melissa Newman as of counsel.

FCC promotes Timothy Strachan to director, Office of Legislative Affairs, where he was acting director ... Squire Patton adds from DLA Piper Tara McGraw Swaminatha as partner, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice ... American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers adds Tony Dunaif, ex-iN Demand, as executive vice president/head-international affairs ... Take-Two moves David Ismailer to president, 2K ... Discovery Communications names Christopher McGrath, ex-Viacom, senior vice president-data and analytics ... Carbon Black adds to board Tom Killalea, ex-Amazon.

CBS Entertainment President Glenn Geller stepping down from that job, and company says they're talking about a production deal with CBS Television Studios; also at the Entertainment division, Kelly Kahl moves up to president; and creative executive Thom Sherman named senior executive vice president-programming ... Telephone and Data Systems moves up James Butman to succeed retiring TDS Telecom President-CEO David Wittwer, effective at year's end; Wittwer remains on the parent company's board ... Kroll appoints Keith Wojcieszek, ex-Secret Service Cyber Intelligence Section, as associate managing director-Cyber Security and Investigations practice.

Acting Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple Claggett moves up Denise Wofford to director-public records and repositories, Copyright Office ... New America adds Andres Bascumbe, ex-aide to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., to TechCongress as program manager ... Joining Optelian is Bryan Hall, formerly at companies bought by Alcatel and Cisco, as senior vice president-sales ... Chunghwa Telecom Senior Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Bo Yung Chen resigns, effective June 1; President Chi-Mau Sheih named interim CFO ... Bahakel Communications promotes Sherry Nelson to vice president-general manager, Montgomery TV operations; she had been interim general manager.

TiVo President-CEO Thomas Carson retiring after a successor is found and then will be an adviser ... Among additional changes at Ford under new CEO Jim Hackett (see this section of this publication on May 23 and 24): Sherif Marakby rejoins, as vice president-autonomous vehicles and electrification, effective June 12; Ken Washington named vice president-research and advanced engineering and chief technology officer; Neil Schloss moves to vice president-chief financial officer-mobility, effective Aug. 1; Bradley Gayton appointed group vice president-chief administrative officer-general counsel, effective June 1 and continuing to report to Hackett; and Jeff Lemmer moves up to chief operating officer-information technology, effective June 1.

E.W. Scripps moves Chris Way to vice president-general manager, KTNV-TV Las Vegas; Lana Durban Scott named interim GM, KMTV-TV Omaha ... Disney hires Tricia Melton, ex-Time Warner, as senior vice president-marketing, Freeform ... Morrison & Foerster adds Wilson Sonsini IP litigators to Intellectual Property Litigation group: as partners Stefani Shanberg and Jennifer Schmidt; of counsel Robin Brewer; and associates Eugene Marder, Madeleine Greene, and Michael Guo.