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After a brief stint in journalism, and nearly twenty years as a lawyer in Washington DC in both government and private practice, Cotton was appointed an executive vice president and general counsel by NBC in 1989.

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Filmography

Middleton's Changeling - ( Associate Producer / 1998 / Released / )

TV Credits
Creature Comforts ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Winter, The Zoo ( 2007 )
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Full Biography (Back to top)


After a brief stint in journalism, and nearly twenty years as a lawyer in Washington DC in both government and private practice, Cotton was appointed an executive vice president and general counsel by NBC in 1989.

Profession(s):
executive, legal counsel, magazine correspondent, lawyer, law clerk
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
wife:Jamie Fellner

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Education
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts BA 1965
School of Law, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut JD 1969
Milestones (Back to top)

1989 Appointed executive vice president and general counsel for NBC in October
1980 Appointed special counsel to deputy secretary John Sawhill of the US Department of Energy
1978 Upped to executive secretary
1977 Went back to Washington as deputy executive secretary in the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1969 - 1970 Served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit
1965 Worked for the Chicago bureau of "Newsweek" magazine as a correspondent after graduating from college
Left journalism to attend law school (date approximate)
Served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.
Went into private practice in the Washington DC area; worked primarily as a partner in the firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood
Advised Alexander Haig during his federal confirmation hearings
Acted as deputy special counsel to the House of Representatives' Ethics Committee
Served as president and chief executive officer of HCX Inc.



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