• John Engler, Michigan’s
governor from 1991 until 2003, has been named the next president
and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers. After leaving
office, Engler, a Republican, became vice president of government
solutions and president of state and local government for Electronic
Data Systems (EDS), an information technology company.
Engler will start his new role Oct. 1, replacing outgoing CEO Jerry
Jasinowski. Jasinowski joined the manufacturers’ group more
than two decades ago and took over the top job in 1990.
• Frederick Graefe, a veteran lobbyist now with Hunton &
Williams, is leaving to start his own law firm Aug. 1. Graefe will
bring his clients to his new firm, where he will continue to lobby
on health, tax, and trade issues.
“I’ve always wanted to do it,” said Graefe about
launching his own firm, at age 60. “I just felt that if I
didn’t do it now, I never would.”
• America’s Community Bankers is adding two new staffers,
including a top adviser to a senior member of the House Financial
Services Committee. Greg Mesack was legislative director to Rep.
Bob Ney (R-Ohio), chairman of the Housing and Community Opportunity
Subcommittee and the House Administration Committee.
Previously, he worked for Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.).
The banking association also added Dennis Hild as vice president
for accounting and financial management policy. Hild has worked
for the Federal Reserve System for 15 years.
• Epstein, Becker & Green, the national law firm, has
added Minh Vu to its Washington office in the labor and employment
section. Vu comes from the Justice Department, where she served
as counselor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Previously, Vu was an associate with Latham & Watkins in Washington.
• After a few years in the congressional relations office
at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, William Himpler
has been named senior vice president for federal government affairs
at the American Financial Services Association. Before joining the
Bush administration, Himpler had experience in both the private
sector and legislative branch, as a lobbyist for Barbour Griffith
& Rogers and a senior aide to Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) and
former Rep. Charles Canady (R-Fla.).
• Matthew Nosanchuk has left the Violence Policy Center, where
he was litigation director and legislative counsel. Nosanchuk has
joined the law firm Collier Shannon Scott’s litigation and
government relations practices. A former aide to the House Judiciary
Committee and former Attorney General Janet Reno, Nosanchuk also
worked as an associate at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Letwin.
• Prism Public Affairs, the firm founded by former Carter
White House aide Dale Leibach, has added four new public-relations
veterans. Rex Granum, who worked with Leibach as deputy press secretary
in the Carter administration, joins Prism after more than two decades
as an executive with ABC News. From 1995 until last year, Granum
directed ABC’s coverage for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The other three additions are Liese Mosher, formerly senior vice
president at Powell Tate, where Leibach once worked; Ashley Vanarsdall,
also a veteran of Powell Tate as well as the Entertainment Software
Association; and Karen Andujar, who joins Prism from American Management
Systems, a Fairfax, Va.-based consulting firm.
• Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has named Bob
Piper vice president of work-force development. Piper is the co-owner
and vice president of corporate operations of Piper Electric, a
Colorado company and member of ABC.
• After more than 10 years, Cathy St. Denis has returned to
Widmeyer Communications. St. Denis, who began her career as a press
aide to then-Rep. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), most recently spent a season
as manager of a bed-and-breakfast inn in southern France. She also
worked in the Washington office of Burson-Marsteller and earlier
at the Immigration and Naturalization Service and White House Conference
of Small Business during the Clinton administration.
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