Verizon adds ex-Clinton cabinet member to board (USA)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A former U.S. secretary of transportation who served under President Bill Clinton has been added as the 13th board of Verizon Communications Inc. Rodney Slater will join Verizon’s board of directors on March 5, 2010.

Slater specializes in transportation, infrastructure and public policy issues and is a partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP in Washington. He is also a vice chairman and senior adviser at James Lee Witt Associates. Slater is also a member of the boards of Delta Air Lines, ICx Technologies, Kansas City Southern and Transurban Group.