Federal Communications Commissioner Sherrie Marshall announced that...

Federal Communications Commissioner Sherrie Marshall announced that she will resign at the end of April to start her own consulting firm. Her firm, with offices in Los Angeles and Washington, will advise entertainment and communications firms.

Marshall will also work out of the offices and be a consultant to Century City entertainment law firm Ziffren, Brittenham & Branca.

“I chose this route because it affords me the flexibility to pursue simultaneously a number of exciting options at a time when the entertainment industry is exploding,” Marshall said.

Then-President Bush appointed Marshall in 1989 to a term that expired last June. She remained at the FCC pending a replacement that Bush never made. President Clinton, who named longtime Commissioner James Quello interim chairman after Alfred Sikes resigned in January, now must make two appointments to the five-member FCC.