Jonathan Sallet is a Senior Fellow of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. His work on communications and technology policy includes serving during the Clinton Administration as head of the White House’s first working group on education technology and of the office of Policy & Strategic Planning for Secretary Ron Brown at the Department of Commerce. From 2013-2016, Mr. Sallet served as Acting General Counsel and then as General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission during the chairmanship of Tom Wheeler.
Mr. Sallet was as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in the Obama Administration and President Obama appointed him to be a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Sallet served as Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review at the University of Virginia and as a law clerk to Judge Edward Tamm of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Sallet and his wife Lori divide their time between Virginia and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where they own a certified-organic, working farm.