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Lobbying and Foreign Representation

Has been represented by:

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (2017 - 2021)
• Alexander Strategy Group (2003 - 2005)
• Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti, Hawkins and Brain Inc. (2001 - 2004)
• Bockorny Group Inc. (2004 - 2007)
• Butera and Andrews (2001 - 2011)
• Cashdollar-Jones and Co. (2001)
• CGCN Group LLC (2002 - 2012)
• Clark, Steve (2001 - 2002)
• Covington & Burling LLP (2001 - 2006, 2011 - 2017)
• Farmer, Thomas L. (2001 - 2005)
• Federal Policy Group LLC (2012 - 2015)
• Federal Resources Group (2011 - 2012, 2015 - 2019)
• Fidelis Government Relations LLC (2020 - 2021)
• Glover Park Group LLC (2007 - 2019)
• Harbinger Strategies LLC (2017 - 2024)
• HSA Consulting Services LLC (2015)
• Jenkins Hill Consulting LLC (2006 - 2008)
• LaRocco and Associates Inc. (2001 - 2002)
• McDermott Will & Emery LLP (2007 - 2008)
• Monument Advocacy (2023 - 2024)
• Morrison & Foerster LLP (2015 - 2024)
• North South Government Strategies (2011 - 2024)
• OGR (2012 - 2024)
• O'Rourke & Nappi LLP (2015 - 2016)
• Perrin, Daniel (2010, 2020 - 2024)
• Porterfield, Fettig & Sears LLC (2006 - 2012, 2019 - 2024)
• Ramthun, Roy J. (2011 - 2013, 2015 - 2024)
• Ricchetti Inc. (2010 - 2011)
• Sidley Austin LLP (2008)
• Sivon Natter & Wechsler PC (2009 - 2018)
• Spangler Strategies LLC (2018 - 2024)
• Sternhell Group (2009)
• Stoner, Floyd (2012)
• Tassey & Associates (2007 - 2024)
• Van Scoyoc Associates Inc. (2001 - 2005)
• Virtualaw LLC (2011)
• Washington Council Ernst & Young (2005 - 2009)
• Williams & Jensen PLLC (2001 - 2003, 2011 - 2015)
• Winston & Strawn LLP (2009 - 2010)

Domestic lobbying:

Filed to lobby on its own behalf from 2002-2024

Revolving door lobbyists:

People who lobbied on behalf of American Bankers Association and have also worked in a congressional office:

• Wayne A. Abernathy
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• Amador Dean Aguillen
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• Brandon Joseph Audap
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• Lauren Darling Bazel
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• Michael J. Beer
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• Paul David Behrends
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• Nathan M. Blake
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• Bryan C. Blom
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• Jonathan M. Blum
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• Christopher Bowlin
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• Tara A. Bradshaw
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• Charles M. Brain
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• Joyce Martin Brayboy
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• Michael Dee Buchanan
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• Edwin Alexander Buckham
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Caught Our Eye

• Sen. Romney makes a rare revolving door hire

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 5, 2024
  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is retiring, but that isn't stopping him from hiring one of the only lobbyists his office has ever employed. read more

• Rep. Kustoff chief heads to ABA government-affairs arm

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 6, 2023
  Rep. David Kustoff's (R-Tenn.) top staffer has landed at the banking industry's biggest lobbying group. read more

• Crypto foe Brad Sherman hires banking lobbyist

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 9, 2023
  "Congress' leading crypto skeptic" has hired an American Bankers Association lobbyist. read more

• House counsel cashes in with Bankers

  Posted by Nate Hoffman on June 25, 2015
  A former Hill staffer has taken a job with the American Bankers Association a year after leaving the Capitol. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on June 13, 2012
  A top legislative assistant to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) left the congressman this month for a new post with a giant in the banking lobby. read more

• Posted by Jock Friedly on Sept. 27, 2011
  Before Beth Zorc moved to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee she was an attorney at Morrison and Foerster LLP, earning $275,000 a year. As an associate, she represented many financial clients, including Visa Inc., the American Bankers Association and Sallie Mae. Zorc had previously been a lobbyist for the American Financial Services Association.

• Posted by Jock Friedly on Sept. 13, 2011
  Dwight Fettig's most recent financial disclosure reported earnings of $448,225 while at the lobbying firm Porterfield, Lowenthal and Fettig LLC last year. Fettig, the legislative director for Sen. Tim Johnson from 1995-2003 returned to the Senate in December as staff director for the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Recent clients of Porterfield, Lowenthal and Fettig LLC include the American Bankers Association and JPMorgan Chase, where fellow former Johnson staffer Naomi Camper is currently the co-head of federal government relations. 

Employees

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People whose biographies include American Bankers Association as an employer:

• Wayne A. Abernathy

  (Feb. 2005-March 2020)

  Executive Vice President, Financial Institutions Policy and Regulatory Affairs

• Rodrigo Javier Alba (Rod)

  (Aug. 2007-)

  Senior Vice President, Mortgage Finance and Senior Counsel

• Aaron Albright

  (April 2005-Feb. 2007)

  Assistant Manager of Public Relations

• Jeanine Henderson Arnett

  (Feb. 2000-Oct. 2005)

  Senior Program Manager, Grassroots Advocacy and Community Outreach

• Lloyd G. Ator Jr.

  (1981-1983)

  Tax Counsel

• James C. Ballentine Jr.

  (Feb. 2012-May 2022)

  Executive Vice President of Congressional Relations and Political Affairs

• Sentell F. Barnes

  (May 2007-May 2011)

  Manager

• Vincent Barnes

  (April 2008-Nov. 2012)

  Senior Legislative Counsel

• Jan Bauer

  (Aug. 2013-Sept. 2014)

  Senior Research Manager

• Francis Paul Benda (Paul)

  (April 2018-)

  Senior Vice President, Risk Management Policy

• Sabrina Danielle Bergen

  (July 2019-)

  Senior Vice President, Office of Strategic Engagement

• Lisa J. Bleier

  (Nov. 2000-Jan. 2011)

  Vice President and Senior Counsel

• Jonathan M. Blum (Jon)

  (Dec. 2022-)

  Vice President, Congressional Relations

• William H. Boger III

  (Nov. 2004-)

  Senior Vice President/Chief Legislative Counsel

• Joshua David Britton (Josh)

  (July 2022-)

  Senior Director, Public Relations

• Daniel J. Brown (Dan)

  (May 2022-)

  Senior Director/Economist

• James J. Butera (Jim)

• Susan Connell Butler

  (1989-1991)

• Kristin Butterfield

  (Jan. 1993-April 2002)

  Associate Director, Grassroots Programs and Washington Information

• Cecelia A. Calaby

  (2011-2020)

  Senior Vice President

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