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Longtime Hill counsel moves to bricklayer's union

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 17, 2017

An attorney with 17 years of Hill experience is paving a new career with the bricklayers' union.

Brian Kennedy, most recently minority general counsel to the House Education and the Workforce Committee, joined the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers as the director of policy, strategy and communications. 

Recently the union, which claims to be the oldest continuous working union, has lobbied Congress on health issues and in support of immigration reform.

Kennedy, who holds a law degree from the University of Virginia, first came to the Hill as general counsel to former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 1987. He served as assistant secretary of the Department of Labor from 2009 until 2014 and, briefly, as a special assistant in President Bill Clinton's White House.