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Ex-Detroiter becomes
FCC's chief counsel.

Alan Hitsky

Associate Editor

W

hen Matthew Berry was
growing up in Bloomfield
Township, his grandfather,
Harold Berry, owned a few radio and tele-
vision stations, among other properties.
Grandfather and grandson would talk
sometimes about the media business.
Now, the grandson talks about the
media all the time as the new general
counsel for the Federal Communications
Commission in Washington, D.C.
Berry's family has long been active in
the Detroit Jewish community. In fact, his
great-grandfather, grandfather and father
— Louis, Harold and Lawrence — all

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served as presidents of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, where Matthew grew up
and was bar mitzvah.
A graduate of Birmingham Groves High
School (1990), Dartmouth College (1994)
and Yale University Law School (1997),
Berry clerked for a year for U.S. Court
of Appeals Judge Laurence Silverman
in the District of Columbia, worked for
three years at the D.C.-based Institute for
Justice and then clerked for a year for U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In the fall of 2002, he was a visiting pro-
fessor at William & Mary School of Law,
teaching courses on the First Amendment
and election law. In 2003, he joined the
U.S. Department of Justice, later serving as
counselor to the assistant attorney general
for the Office of Legal Policy. He earned
the department's John Marshall Award for
providing legal advice on counter-terror-

Matthew Berry prepares for an FCC meeting.

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