UScellular announced that Adriana Rios Welton has joined the company as head of legal and government affairs. In this role, she leads the company's regulatory and policy efforts at the state and federal level and provides legal counsel to the company's leadership team regarding transactional, regulatory, telecommunications, environmental and financial issues. Welton has more than 11 years of legal counsel experience, and she comes to the company from AT&T Mexico, where she most recently served as general counsel and vice president of regulatory and external affairs.

She is succeeding John Gockley, senior vice president of legal and regulatory affairs, who will be retiring in July. Welton earned a bachelor's degree in politics from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and holds a juris doctor from Duke University Law School in Durham, N.C.