Mark Nielsen (attorney) explained

Mark Nielsen
Office:Chief of Staff to the Governor of Massachusetts
Governor:Mitt Romney
Term Start:2006
Term End:2007
Predecessor:Beth Myers
Successor:Joan Wallace-Benjamin[1] [2]
Office1:Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of Massachusetts
Governor1:Mitt Romney
Term Start1:2004
Term End1:2006
Predecessor1:Daniel Winslow[3]
Successor1:Brian Leske[4]
State Senate2:Connecticut
District2:24th
Term Start2:1995
Term End2:1999
Predecessor2:James H. Maloney
Successor2:David Cappiello
State House3:Connecticut
District3:138th
Term Start3:1993
Term End3:1995
Predecessor3:Lawrence Anastasia
Successor3:David Cappiello
Birth Date:25 August 1964[5]
Birth Place:Hartford, Connecticut[6]
Party:Democratic (2023–present)[7]
Otherparty:Republican (1982-2023)
Education:Harvard College (AB)[8]
Harvard Law School (JD)

Mark D. Nielsen (born 1964) is an American business executive, former elected official, and attorney.

Nielsen's current position is chief legal and regulatory officer of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (NASDAQ: FYBR), at the company's offices in Norwalk, Connecticut. Frontier is America's fourth largest landline telecom company providing data and voice services in 25 states.

Nielsen started his legal career in 1990 as an associate lawyer at the Hartford law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Richter & Pinney, concentrating on federal and state litigation.

Nielsen's public roles have included state representative in Connecticut (1992-1994), state senator in Connecticut (1994-1998), and staff member to Mitt Romney when Romney was Governor of Massachusetts. Nielsen served as Romney's chief legal counsel from 2004 to 2006, and his chief of staff from 2006 to 2007, succeeding Beth Myers in that position.[9]

In his memoir, In My Time, Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledges that he was initially angered by Nielsen’s favorable comments about Cheney's opponent in the 2000 election, Senator Joe Lieberman, but that, upon reflection, he couldn’t disagree with what Nielsen had said about Lieberman.[10]

Nielsen is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and currently serves as a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Columbia Law School.[11] His brother Steven Nielsen is CEO of Dycom Industries, Inc. (NYSE: DY)[12] and his wife Jane Nielsen is COO of Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL).[13]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 28 Nov 2006, 2 - North Adams Transcript at . Newspapers.com . 2006-11-28 . 2022-06-05.
  2. Web site: 8 Dec 2006, 38 - The Boston Globe at . Newspapers.com . 2006-12-08 . 2022-06-05.
  3. Web site: Archived copy . www.mass.gov . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050919150933/http://www.mass.gov/portal/index.jsp?pageID=pressreleases&agId=Agov2&prModName=gov2pressrelease&prFile=gov_pr_040924_mark_nielson.xml . 19 September 2005 . dead.
  4. Web site: Romney's chief of staff leaves to run PAC .
  5. News: CNN/AllPolitics Election '98. CNN.
  6. Web site: Mark Nielsen.
  7. News: Connecticut Voter Registration Portal.
  8. Web site: Mark D. Nielsen - Office of the Governor's Legal Counsel . www.mass.gov . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050923133955/http://www.mass.gov/legal/NielsenBio.html . 23 September 2005 . dead.
  9. Web site: Frontier Communications Names Mark D. Nielsen Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary (NYSE:FTR). 2016-11-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107015456/http://investor.frontier.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=829838. 2017-11-07. dead.
  10. Book: Cheney. Dick. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. 2012. Threshold Editions. New York, NY. 978-1-4391-7619-1. 275. 1st. registration.
  11. Web site: Mark Nielsen.
  12. Web site: Steven E Nielsen. Bloomberg News.
  13. Web site: Jane Hamilton Nielsen . 2023-05-26 . www.bloomberg.com.