Congratulations to Roger W. Fones, Susan S. DeSanti, and Meredyth Smith Andrus who will receive a special award from the American Antitrust Institute which honors civil servants who devoted their professional careers to enforcement of the antitrust laws at the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, or in the States.  According to the (emailed only) press release:

Roger W. Fones joined the Depart of Justice’s Antitrust Division in December 1975 as a trial attorney. Most recently he served as Chief of the Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section.  In matters involving the airline industry, Mr. Fones led or supervised numerous investigations and legal challenges of domestic airline mergers and acquisitions, and domestic and international code-sharing agreements.  Mr. Fones was responsible for all civil antitrust enforcement in the regulated electric power and natural gas industries, as well as in other non-regulated energy industries.  He also had a major impact on competition in the agricultural, transportation, and aluminum industries.  Currently, he is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Law Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster.    Susan S. DeSanti’s began at the Federal Trade Commission as an Attorney Advisor to former Commissioner Dennis Yao. Next, she became Assistant Director of the Bureau of Competition for Evaluation and Policy and then Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky. From 1995 to 2006 she was Director of Policy Planning and later Deputy General Counsel for Policy Studies. In that role, she spearheaded the FTC’s report on the proper balance between competition and patent law and policy, as well as other reports on the role of competition in health care, business-to-business electronic marketplaces, competition in the new high-tech, global marketplace, and factors that influence gasoline prices. In 2006, she left the Federal Trade Commission to take the position of Senior Counsel at the Antitrust Modernization Commission where she was responsible for drafting the final report.    Meredyth Smith Andrus was an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General from 1988 to 2006, working primarily in the health care field.  Ms. Andrus played a prominent role in numerous multi-state and joint federal/state investigations and prosecutions in the pharmaceutical industry. She served as a liaison contact between state and federal antitrust enforcers and assisted in facilitating cooperative enforcement efforts in many government antitrust enforcement actions in the pharmaceutical industry. She also served for six years as co-chair of the Pharmaceutical Industry working group of the National Association of Attorneys General. In 2004, Ms. Andrus received the Marvin Award from NAAG for her multi-state enforcement efforts in the pharmaceutical industry. Today, she is an attorney with the Health Care Division of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, which she joined in September 2006.

Congratulations to all three.

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