• EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
• BEGINS CAREER AS ATTORNEY
• JOINS AT&T
• ASSUMES TOP LEADERSHIP AT AT&T
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Chairman and chief executive officer, AT&T Wireless

Nationality: American.

Born: 1947, in Momence, Illinois.

Education: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, BS, 1969; Harvard University, JD, 1972.

Family: Son of Donald D. (lawyer) and Dorothy Ann Joost Zeglis (English teacher); married Carol Jane Hamm; children: three.

Career: Sidley and Austin, 1973–1978, associate; 1978–1984, partner; AT&T, 1984–1996, general counsel; 1997–1999, vice chairman and president; AT–T Wireless, 1999–2004, chairman and chief executive...