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Chabot hires veteran chief of staff, former lobbyist

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Aug. 4, 2015

Rep. Jon Runyan's (R-N.J.) onetime chief of staff has found her way back to the Hill as chief in other Republican office.

Stacy Barton worked as Runyan's top staffer all four of his years in office until his January departure and is now back in the office of Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio). Her experience as a chief of staff in Congress goes back more than a decade, beginning with Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) from 2003-10.

She also has experience on the other side of the aisle with Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) as Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellow in the mid-1990's.

Barton has spent several years lobbying for a variety of cities and agencies, as well as the American Museum of Natural History in the early 2000's. She has held legislative and government affairs positions with Jorden, Burt, Berenson and Johnson LLP, Development Initiatives Inc. and Barton Co.

She also directed government affairs for the Society for Neuroscience in 2010 but did not file a lobbying registration.

Chabot's former chief, Mark Wellman, retired from Congress Friday.