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Coffman hires Quicken Loans lobbyist as legislative director

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on March 17, 2015

The new legislative director for Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) is back in Congress after traveling a fourth time between K Street and the Hill.

Dina Ellis Rochkind was a fixture on the Hill beginning in the mid-1990s, gaining experience over the next decade on several Republican staffs. She has now returned once again to help lead legislative strategy in a congressional office after lobbying for Quicken Loans Inc.

Rochkind first came to the Hill after experience working as a reporter and served on the staffs of Reps. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) and George W. Gekas (R-Pa.) before working on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. She moved to a job at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2001 but returned again to the Hill in 2003 to work on the House Financial Services Committee.

In 2007, Rochkind took her first lobbying job at Chrysler, where she registered as a lobbyist until making another return to Congress, this time as senior financial services counsel for Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) in 2011. She went on to serve as Republican staff director at the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee's Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee.

Rochkind left Congress for the third time in 2013 when she took the Quicken Loans position of vice president of federal government affairs, registering to lobby on issues including patent reform and net neutrality. She made her most recent return to the Hill this month.

Rochkind has a bachelor's in English from Penn State University and a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law.