Mintz Levin promotes Tara Corvo to chairwoman, Communications Section,...

Mintz Levin promotes Tara Corvo to chairwoman, Communications Section, succeeding Howard Symons, going to FCC as Incentive Auction Task Force vice chairman (CD Jan 31 p18) … FCC names Stephen Michael Bloom, Oregon Public Utility Commission, and Chris Nelson, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, to Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, replacing John Burke, Vermont Public Service Board, and Randy Mitchell, South Carolina Public Service Commission, and names Sally Talberg, Michigan Public Service Commission, to Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations, succeeding Larry Landis, who represented Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission … Communications Systems’ Transition Networks fiber access technology firm hires Kevin Martin, ex-Overture, as vice president-international sales … CIMA Group international telecom company promotes Juan Martin Gomez to CEO; previous CEO Daniel Contreras named to board … Lobbyist registration: Technology company coalition Reform Government Surveillance, Monument Policy Group, effective Jan. 9.