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Still less than five years into her first in-house role, telecommunications regulation specialist Alison Minea has already made an impression both inside and outside her organization. ‘Alison has achieved tremendous success at an early point in her career, and there is no doubt in my mind that her future is bright and the best is yet to come,’ says one source. ‘She is a rising star in the truest sense of the word’. A year into her time at satellite service provider DISH (formerly DISH Network), Minea was promoted to senior counsel and director, and currently handles the company’s advocacy before the FCC on spectrum, media and satellite issues. ‘Despite her relatively young career, Alison has become a lawyer known for getting results on big issues,’ says Pantelis Michalopoulos of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. ‘DISH does not maintain a large Washington office, so she often has the lead on many cutting edge issues for the company. And her track record in just over four years at DISH includes many accomplishments that would make a much more senior attorney envious’. Minea is also active in the bar association and has just completed a term on the FCBA Foundation’s board of directors, an organization that raises and distributes funds for scholarships and local children’s organizations. Formerly a research assistant on the subject of telecommunication policy, Minea has been active in Colorado School of Law alumni organizations and its interdisciplinary research center Silicon Flatirons. ‘She is an active leader in the bar and her community, and her grace under fire is an inspiration to others,’ says Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP’s Craig Gilmore.