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Pew Charitable Trusts hires Udall's former legislative director

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Feb. 26, 2015

Former Sen. Mark Udall's (D-Colo.) legislative director has landed an advocacy job at Pew Charitable Trusts.

Jake Swanton now serves as director of government relations at Pew after nearly eight years of legislative work in the Senate. He started in 2007 as deputy legislative assistant to Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and moved to Udall's office in 2009 where his first title was legislative assistant.

Swanton has a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary and a master's from the George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.

The new Pew staffer also worked on two Democratic presidential campaigns, first in 2004 for John Kerry and in 2012 for President Barack Obama's Colorado staff.

Pew, which has $5 billion in assets, lobbies on a variety of issues, including health care, clean energy and food safety, according to filings.