Johanna Shelton

Johanna Shelton: Johanna Mikes Shelton serves as Policy Counsel and Legislative Strategist for Google Inc. in Washington DC. Johanna joined Google in June 2007, after serving as Senior Counsel for Telecommunications and the Internet for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce under Chairman John D. Dingell (D-MI). Her portfolio included all telecommunications, Internet and media issues before the Committee. She previously served as legal advisor for broadcast and cable issues to FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and as counsel for Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) focusing on broadband and intellectual property. Before that, she was an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau and at Latham & Watkins in Washington DC. She received her J.D. magna cum laude and a B.S. in Business Administration summa cum laude from Georgetown University. Following law school, Ms. Shelton clerked for the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.