Nathan Simington

Nathan Simington (born January 31, 1979) is a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Simington previously served as a senior advisor at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Prior to that, he had worked as an associate at Mayer Brown, Kirkland & Ellis, and Chapman and Cutler, and as legal counsel at Brightstar Corporation. Early life and education Simington grew up in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Simington grew up in a rural part of the province. His family were homesteaders in Saskatchewan in the early 1900s. He has said that radio played an important role in his life because growing up he had very few television channels to watch and the radio was "always on." Prior to being awarded a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School, Simington had pursued music, studying violin at Lawrence University, and earning a Master of the Arts in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music.