Robert M. Winteringham is a founder, counsel, and consultant at the Public Media Consulting Group and former Special Counsel for the law firm of Fletcher Heald & Hildreth.  Prior to that, Mr. Winteringham was the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Deputy General Counsel from 2005 - 2013 after serving as CPB’s Acting General Counsel in 2005.  In total, he worked as an attorney in CPB's Office of General Counsel from 1997 to 2013. Mr. Winteringham also served as a Vice President and Chair of the Legal Committee for the North American Broadcasters Association. Before working at CPB, Mr. Winteringham was the senior associate at the communications law firm of McFadden, Evans & Sill. Mr. Winteringham also worked as an intern at the advertising agency Young & Rubicam. Mr. Winteringham is a cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington, where he served on the editorial board of the Federal Communications Law Journal. Mr. Winteringham received his undergraduate degree with high honors from the University of Michigan.