Julie Brill
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Julie Brill was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission
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 April 6, 2010, to a term that expires on September 25, 2016.

Before she became a Commissioner, Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General
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 and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina
North Carolina
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 Department of Justice, a position she held since February 2009. Brill has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University’s School of Law. Prior to her move to the North Carolina Department of Justice, Brill was an Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont
Vermont
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 for over 20 years, from 1988 to 2009.

Brill has received several national awards for her work protecting consumers. She has testified before Congress
United States Congress
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, published numerous articles, and served on many national expert panels focused on consumer protection issues such as pharmaceuticals, privacy, credit reporting, data security breaches, and tobacco. Brill has also served as a Vice-Chair of the Consumer Protection Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association.

Prior to her career in law enforcement, Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
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 in New York from 1987 to 1988. She clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings
Franklin S. Billings
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, Jr. From 1985 to 1986. Brill graduated, magna cum laude, from Princeton University
Princeton University
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, and from New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law
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, where she had a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.

Brill is married to Mark Miller, and has two sons, Zachary and Noah.
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