Jim Cicconi

Jim Cicconi, senior executive vice president-external and legislative affairs, is responsible for AT&T's public policy organization, and is chair of the AT&T Foundation. He has served in this capacity since November 2005, following the close of the merger between SBC Communications and AT&T Corp.

Previously, Mr. Cicconi served as general counsel and executive vice president for law & government affairs at AT&T Corp. Prior to joining AT&T in September 1998, he was a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. Mr. Cicconi also served in the White House under two presidents, including two years as deputy chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, and four years as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan.

Mr. Cicconi currently serves as a director of El Paso Electric Company, the American Council on Germany, Jobs for America's Graduates, Connected Nation, NXTcomm, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Secretary - USTelecom Board of Directors; a member of the University of Texas at Austin Development Board and the LBJ School advisory council; a trustee of The Brookings Institution, and vice president of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. He is chairman of the finance committee for the commissioning if PCU GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN 77). He has also served as a presidential appointee to the Review Advisory Committee for UNESCO and to the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Mr. Cicconi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the State Bar of Texas.

Mr. Cicconi is married and has three daughters.