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Meehan hires seasoned health industry lobbyist to fill LA role

Posted by Steve Shapiro on Nov. 2, 2015

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.) and his office look to be in good shape after the hiring of a longtime health care lobbyist.

Julie Nolan came on board the congressman's staff as a legislative assistant last month after a nearly 10-year lobbying career. She joins Meehan from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld where she worked for over a year as a policy adviser and lobbied on assorted health care issues.

Meehan took an active role in both opposing and criticizing Obamacare and the Healthcare.gov rollout. More recently, he has promoted the 21st Century Cures Act, which passed the House with bipartisan support in July.

It's a return to the Hill for the health policy specialist, who also served as a staff assistant for former Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) in 2006. Nolan joined Lugar from law firm Patton Boggs, where she started her career in 2005 as a public policy staff member. She only stayed with Lugar for a year though, before heading back through the revolving door to Patton Boggs. She filed her first lobbying disclosure upon her return and advocated for numerous issues as part of the firm's health practice over the next seven years.

Nolan left Patton Boggs in 2014 when the firm merged with Squire Sanders, migrating to Akin Gump along with several others covering health policy at the firm.