Federal Trade Commission Commissioners

	Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman Speeches Deborah Platt Majoras was sworn in on August 16, 2004, as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Majoras joined the FTC from Jones Day in Washington, DC, where she served as a partner in the firm’s antitrust section. While at Jones Day, she worked on a variety of antitrust counseling and civil and criminal litigation matters, including mergers and acquisitions, monopolization, price-fixing, distribution issues, and governmental investigations. Majoras also was a member of the firm’s technology issues practice and has participated in a variety of non-antitrust commercial disputes and criminal cases, including fraud, securities violations, and employment discrimination. In April 2001, Majoras was appointed deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division. She was named principal deputy in November 2002. During her three-year tenure, she oversaw matters involving numerous industries including software, financial networks, defense, health care, media and entertainment, banking, and industrial equipment. She also served as chair of the International Competition Network’s (ICN) Merger Working Group and oversaw policy initiatives such as the FTC/DOJ Health Care Hearings, DOJ’s Merger Review Process Initiative, and the Mergers Best Practices Project. She is a frequent speaker on competition policy to national and international audiences. Majoras graduated summa cum laude from Westminster College and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1989, where she was awarded Order of the Coif and served as an editor of UVA’s Law Review. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law, where she recently served as vice chair of the Section 2 Committee and as a member of the Long-Range Planning Committee. Majoras also served as a non-governmental advisor to the ICN and was named by President Bush to serve on the Antitrust Modernization Commission. Majoras resides in McLean, Va. with her husband, John Majoras.


	Orson Swindle Speeches Orson Swindle was sworn in as a Republican Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission December 18, 1997. Commissioner Swindle was appointed in December, 2001 as head of the United States Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Experts Group to review the 1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. Mr. Swindle has had a distinguished military career and served in the Reagan Administration from 1981 to 1989 directing financial assistance programs to economically distressed rural and municipal areas of the country. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Development he managed the Department of Commerce's national economic development efforts directing seven offices across the country. Mr. Swindle was State Director of the Farmers Home Administration for the U.S. Department of Agriculture financing rural housing, community infrastructure, businesses, and farming. In 1992, Mr. Swindle became the first national leader of United We Stand America and in 1993 worked with Jack Kemp, Vin Weber, William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick to form Empower America. In 1994 and in 1996 he was a Republican candidate for Congress in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District. As a Marine aviator serving in South Vietnam on November 11, 1966, Mr. Swindle was shot down from the skies over North Vietnam while flying his 205th and last combat mission. He was captured by the North Vietnamese and held Prisoner of War in Hanoi for the next six years and four months. On March 4, 1973, Mr. Swindle was released from captivity. Mr. Swindle retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1979 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His 20 military decorations for valor in combat include two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. Mr. Swindle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech in 1959 and a Master of Business Administration from Florida State University in 1975. He was born in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 8, 1937, and grew up in Camilla, Georgia. He and his wife, Angie live in Alexandria, Virginia.

	Thomas B. Leary Speeches Thomas B. Leary was sworn in as a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission on November 17, 1999. His term on the five-member Commission expires in 2005. Before his service on the Federal Trade Commission, Mr. Leary was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, in Washington, D.C., since 1983. His practice was principally in the area of antitrust and trade regulation. Before becoming a partner at Hogan & Hartson, Mr. Leary was the Assistant General Counsel of General Motors, with overall responsibility for antitrust, consumer protection and commercial law matters. Before joining General Motors, he was a partner at White & Case in New York. Mr. Leary received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton University and a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and an officer of the Harvard Law Review. He served as an Air Intelligence Officer on active duty in the United States Navy from 1952-1955.

	Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner Speeches Pamela Jones Harbour, an independent, was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission August 4, 2003 to a term that expires in September 2009. Ms. Harbour joins the FTC from Kaye Scholer LLP where she served as a partner in the litigation department handling antitrust matters. She counseled clients on Internet privacy, e-commerce, consumer protection, and a variety of competition-related matters. Prior to joining Kaye Scholer, Ms. Harbour was New York State Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Office’s 150-attorney Public Advocacy Division. During her 11-year term in the Attorney General’s office, she argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of 35 states in State Oil v. Khan, a landmark price-fixing case. She also successfully represented numerous states in New York v. Reebok, States v. Keds, and States v. Mitsubishi, each resulting in multimillion-dollar national consumer settlements. Among her most notable antitrust cases were New York v. May Department Stores, a successful anti-merger challenge, and States v. Primestar Partners, a consent judgment culminating a four-year multistate investigation of the cable television industry. Ms. Harbour received her law degree in1984 from Indiana University School of Law, and a B.M. in 1981 from Indiana University School of Music. Ms. Harbour, a native of New York and New Jersey, is married to John Harbour, and has three children.

Photo Unavailable	Jon Leibowitz, Commissioner Speeches Jon Leibowitz joined the Federal Trade Commission from the Motion Picture Association of America, where he served as vice president for congressional affairs from 2000 to 2004. Prior to his position at the MPAA, Leibowitz was the Democratic chief counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee from 1997 to 2000, where he focused on competition policy and telecommunications matters. He served as chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Technology from 1995 to 1996 and the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice from 1991 to 1994. In addition, he served as chief counsel to Senator Herb Kohl from 1989 to 2000. Leibowitz worked for Senator Paul Simon from 1986 to 1987 and as an attorney in private practice in Washington from 1984 to 1986. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in American History (1980), Leibowitz graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1984. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and has co-authored amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court on issues ranging from gun control to the census. He lives in Bethesda with his wife, Ruth Marcus, and his two daughters, Emma and Julia.