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Loretta Polk is Vice President & Deputy General Counsel of NCTA – The Internet & Television Association. She has over 30 years of experience representing the cable industry on a wide variety of legal and regulatory matters, including video and broadband technology, competition, consumer protection, public safety and emerging tech policy issues. She leads the association’s privacy and cybersecurity work and is part of its AI working group.
Over her career, Loretta has served on the Federal Communications Bar Association’s Executive Committee and co-chaired the former Cable Practice Committee. She was also a trustee of the FCBA Foundation, co-chairing the high school and college scholarship program. In 2001, she completed the Cable Television and Marketing Association’s executive management program at Harvard Business School and was appointed to the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee from 2004 – 2007. Loretta is also a frequent speaker at the Practising Law Institute’s annual broadband and cable law program.
Loretta is a member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and in 2018 was among a group of women that received the Multichannel News and WICT-NY “Wonder Woman” award, which honors the accomplishments of women who have helped pave the way for younger generations of women in the evolving television, media and internet industries. She now serves on the National Advisory Council of the Emma Bowen Foundation, which provides multi-year internships for college students seeking careers in media and technology. And she was a long-time member of the boards of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) and the Legal Aid Society, and served on the DC Bar Technology Task Force. Early in her legal career, she worked as a Legal Advisor at the U.S. Department of State and as an associate in the Washington office of Jones Day. Loretta received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Human Rights Law Review, and her B.A. from Rutgers University.
