They have volunteered with the Peace Corps, produced TV news in Texas and helped write a retrospective on Mitt Romney's plans to transition to the White House.
The new staffers packing their bags to come to Capitol Hill in the coming weeks with new members-elect range in age and experience and hail from across the country.
Of the 11 transition aides that the new members elect have revealed so far, eight are men and three are women. Several completed bachelor's degrees in the 1980s while another was born that decade.
That younger aide, Daniel Kroese, incoming transition aide and chief of staff for Representative-elect John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), graduated in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania. Kroese also worked on the Romney Readiness Project and is co-author of a 2012 book about lessons learned.
Many of the aides worked on or led new members' campaign staffs, and at least four of them have worked in Congress before. Andrew Lachman, transitioning with Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), once interned with Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and worked for the House Democratic Caucus.
K. Ryan James, of incoming Rep. Bruce Westerman's (R-Ark.) office, worked for two other Republican representatives from Arkansas: Rep. John Boozman and Rep. Tim Griffin. A Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) transition aide, Scott Luginbill, started in 2007 on the Hill with Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and continued through early this year with Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.).
Jay Ruais returns to Congress with incoming Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) after serving as his legislative correspondent and legislative assistant in Guinta's first term in office.
Only one of the 11, Ruais, has been a federally registered lobbyist. Ruais worked as government affairs manager for the Transportation Intermediaries Association and filed papers in 2013 before becoming Guinta's campaign manager this year.
