Anne Weismann received her A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1975, and her J.D. from the National Law Center, George Washington University, in 1979. After working in the Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of Labor for approximately 2 years, she joined the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, where she worked until the fall of 2002. From 1990 forward, Ms. Weismann served as an Assistant Branch Director with supervisory responsibility first over banking litigation, then housing litigation, and from 1995 until 2002, she supervised all government information litigation. This included litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, third party subpoenas, and statutes governing presidential records. From 2002 through 2004, Ms. Weismann served as Deputy Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, where she had responsibility for all of the Bureau's telecommunications matters.