Mignon Clyburn is the daughter of Congressman Jim Clyburn, Mignon served as commissioner of the FCC from 2009 to 2018. Throughout her tenure as commissioner, Clyburn fought to preserve net-neutrality in the United States and mounted "a vigorous defense of the FCC's pro-consumer policies." Prior to her work as commissioner of the FCC, Clyburn served 11 years on the Public Service Commission of South Carolina and worked for nearly 15 years as publisher of the Coastal Times, a Charleston weekly newspaper focused on the African American community. Following her commissionership, Clyburn served as an advisor to T-Mobile through its merger with Sprint. In July, Lionsgate named her to its board, becoming the company’s first black woman to assume the role. Recently, she worked on a voluntary basis as part of the Biden transition team.