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Brantley Named New IEEE-USA Managing Director

WASHINGTON (02 April 2004) — A 15-year government relations veteran with the IEEE, Chris J. Brantley, today was named managing director for IEEE-USA, the IEEE organizational unit that promotes the careers and public-policy interests of more than 225,000 technology professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. In this role, Brantley will support IEEE-USA's Board of Directors, serve on the IEEE Management Council, and provide overall management for IEEE-USA's government relations programs, member and professional activities and communications efforts.

He succeeds W. Thomas Suttle, who retired from the IEEE on 1 April after 27 years of service. Suttle helped lead a volunteer and staff team that produced retirement security reforms for the engineering profession, established the IEEE-USA Government Fellowships programs, and served as IEEE-USA's staff director and managing director since 1993.

Brantley was previously IEEE-USA's Director of Government Relations and Operations. Prior to joining the IEEE in 1989, he served as Assistant to the Executive Director of the American Association of Engineering Societies.

Brantley holds the Juris Doctorate and a Masters in Law and International Affairs from the American University's Washington College of Law and School of International Service, respectively. He received his B.A. in political science from Mercer University in Atlanta. Brantley is licensed to practice law in the State of Georgia, and is currently an adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law, where he teaches a seminar on International Courts.

IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE created in 1973 to advance the public good, while promoting the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 225,000 technology professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to www.ieeeusa.org.

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Last Update:  15 May 2007
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