KQED Senior Management

William L. Lowery
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Bill Lowery joined KQED in February 2008 as deputy general counsel, was appointed interim general counsel and corporate secretary in March 2010, and promoted to his current position in June 2010. He is responsible for managing the diverse legal affairs of KQED, which range from FCC regulatory issues to content licensing and distribution, intellectual property matters, contract negotiation, and litigation management. He is also responsible for overseeing activities related to the Board of Directors.

Bill came to KQED from the Washington, D.C. communications law firm Miller & Van Eaton, where he was a partner and the managing director of the firm's San Francisco office. He came to the Bay Area as a law student at U.C. Hastings College of the Law, where he earned his J.D. in 1993. Following law school, he practiced as a litigation associate in the San Francisco law firm of Steefel, Levitt and Weiss, and later joined some former Steefel colleagues at a small start-up law firm, where he participated in jury and bench trials.

Bill's arrival at KQED marked a full-circle transition in his professional career, which started with a production assistant position at PBS member station WOUB-TV on the campus of Ohio University during his undergraduate years. Bill earned his bachelor of science in Communications degree there, launching a television production career that included stints at commercial stations across the country, where he held positions as producer-director and production manager. He also holds a master of arts degree in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University, where he has developed and taught graduate courses in media ethics in the University's Broadcasting and Electronic Communication Arts department.

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