Lonna Thompson

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Email: lthompson@apts.org

Phone: 202-654-4215

Lonna Thompson is the executive vice president and chief operating officer for America’s Public Television Stations (APTS). In this role, Thompson oversees the management of the association and supervises all aspects of the operation of APTS.

Thompson has been with APTS since 1994. Before joining APTS, she was a communications lawyer in private practice for 10 years. While in private practice, Thompson represented broadcast and public safety clients.

Thompson received her JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. She also received a master’s degree in communications studies from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in English from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. Before entering law, Thompson worked as a university teaching assistant and a high school English and mass media teacher.