Board Member

Jeffrey H. Tignor, leads the Office of Communications Business Opportunity at the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Tignor is also an adjunct professor at the Duke University School of Law. Mr. Tignor is the former Chairman of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 4B. He was elected as the ANC Commissioner for ANC 4B-08 in November 2002 and served as the Chairman of ANC 4B during 2003 and 2004, often working on issues affecting public safety. Mr. Tignor is currently the Chair of the Board of Washington Episcopal School and Immediate Past President on the Board of the Harvard Club of Washington, D.C.
 
Mr. Tignor graduated from Harvard with an AB in Government in 1996 and from the Duke University School of Law in 1999. He moved to Washington, D.C. to live in his grandfather’s former home in Ward 4, where he still lives today with his wife, Kemi, and son, Henry. Someone in the Tignor family has been living in Washington, D.C. continually, as far as he knows, since just after the Civil War. Mr. Tignor was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser on November 15, 2018, and confirmed by the Council for a term ending January 12, 2021. On July 8, 2021, Mr. Tignor was confirmed by the DC Council for a second term ending January 12, 2024.