Fox News Media named Katherine Meeks as general counsel, effective Aug. 19.

Meeks will report to Suzanne Scott, chief executive.

Most recently, she was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Prior to that, she was an associate at Williams & Connolly in the firm’s media and First Amendment practice group and earlier clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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