Yesterday, Christine Wilson was sworn in as FTC Commissioner. Commissioner Wilson – the fifth and final Trump appointee – joins the FTC from Delta Airlines and assumes former Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen’s seat. Commissioner Ohlhausen announced her departure on Tuesday – the day her term ended, concluding over six years of service as Commissioner, including a year-and-a-half as the agency’s Acting Chair before current Chair Joseph Simons assumed the role.
As we previously reported here, Commissioner Wilson overlapped with Chair Simons during his time as Director of the Bureau of Competition, while she served as Chief of Staff to then-Chair Timothy Muris. The FTC currently is in the middle of public hearings on consumer protection, privacy, and competition policy and enforcement, and we expect these hearings and the public comments received to help shape the Commission’s priorities going forward.