USCCB attorney to receive award from United Church of Christ

Published: 2006-06-01

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Katherine Grincewich, associate general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a longtime advocate for public rights in broadcasting, has been selected by the United Church of Christ to receive the Everett C. Parker Award for 2006. The presentation will be made at a luncheon ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington Sept. 12. The Parker Award has been presented annually for more than 20 years by the communications office of the United Church of Christ and is named after the founder of the office, the Rev. Everett Parker. Award recipients are selected nationally based on their advocacy for public interest through social communications. Mark Chopko, USCCB general counsel, said Grincewich is known as an "effective advocate" by commissioners and staff members of the Federal Communications Commission and by communications lobbyists in Washington. "Given the historic reality that the broadcast and communications industry wields substantial weight with regulators, her career in support of the public agenda of the bishops' conference has been extraordinary," he said in a statement.

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