President Joe Biden appoints California Public Utilities Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves as administrator of EPA Region 9, serving states including California, starting Dec. 20 ... BakerHostetler hires Jennifer Mitchell, ex-Sony Pictures Entertainment, as partner and member, Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group ... Nebraska Public Service Commission votes unanimously to hire retired Nebraska Army National Guard Colonel Thomas Golden as the PSC's executive director, replacing Mike Hybl, who retired in September ... CTIA hires from the office of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sydney Pettit, who joins as director-government affairs.

Energous promotes Cesar Johnston to CEO, from acting CEO since July ... ExteNet advances Rich Coyle to president-CEO; he was interim CEO since July ... Data center development company Gotspace hires Mike Grella, former Amazon director-economic development, as chief operating officer ... TDS Telecom promotes Scott Schultz to vice president-marketing and product development ... GVF elects to two-year terms on the satellite association’s board Nancy Eskenazi, SES, and Julie Zoller, Amazon's Project Kuiper.

With FCC precision agriculture task force rechartered (see 2112090079), members are Commissioner Dale Artho of Deaf Smith County, Texas; Florida state Sen. Loranne Ausley (D); Sreekala Bajwa, a vice president, dean and director at Montana State University's College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station; Andy Bater, farmer with Fifth Estate Growers; Julie Bushell, who works at Paige Wireless and represents the Irrigation Association on the ag panel; Anthony Dillard, tribal councilman, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Michael Gomes, Topcon Precision Agriculture; Heather Hampton+Knodle, Knodle Farms; Midwest Energy & Communications CEO Bob Hance; Ryan Krogh with John Deere; Jennifer Manner from Hughes; Joy Sterling, Iron Horse Vineyards; and Jimmy Todd, Nex-Tech; with Rural Utilities Service acting Administrator Christopher McLean an ex-officio, nonvoting member of the task force, which has Designated Federal Officer Jesse Jachman and Deputy Designated Federal Officers Elizabeth Cuttner and Stacy Ferraro.