← Chronicle · Succession · January 20, 2025

Brendan Carr Designated Chairman of the FCC

Brendan Carr became Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on January 20, 2025, designated by presidential order on Inauguration Day. Carr was already a sitting commissioner — he has served on the Commission since 2017 — so the chairmanship took effect by designation rather than by a new Senate confirmation, and there is no confirmation vote to record for this entry.

The mission that started here is the communications-regulation program this chronicle tracks under the Elections & Governance hub: the FCC run in public, through its monthly Open Meetings carried in full, with Carr himself one of the administration’s most direct X-native voices (@BrendanCarrFCC).

Sources: Federal Communications Commission (Carr biography and chairmanship record, fcc.gov); Motion Picture Association statement on the designations of Brendan Carr as Chairman of the FCC and Andrew Ferguson as Chairman of the FTC, January 20, 2025; Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council press statement, January 21, 2025.