Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies Chairman - Senator Dianne Feinstein Senator
Bob Bennett, Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi House
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer House Republican Leader John Boehner
Staff Director
Howard Gantman
Also staff director for the U.S.
Senate Rules and Administration Committee. Previously served
eight years as Senator Feinstein’s communications director. West
Coast director of government affairs for the Kamber Group.
Assistant chief of staff to L.A. City Councilman Mike Feuer.
Chief legislative deputy and communications director for L.A. City
Councilwoman Rita Walters. Worked for nearly a decade as a
reporter covering state and local politics and the criminal courts in
Los Angeles. Graduate of Kenyon College.
Communications Director
Carole Florman
(started Sept. 2008)
Media relations consultant for Clean Air - Cool Planet. Advance
person on John Edwards for President, 2007. Communication
director at Change to Win. Vice president for communications at
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 2000-03. Advance person
for the Office of the President of the United States, 1993-2000 and
deputy director of public affairs at
the U.S. Department of Justice, 1995-2000. Vice president at
Fenton Communication, 1998-99. Director of the Florida Global
Warming Education Project, 1991-92. Director of media relations
for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1989-91. Deputy
director of planning for the Battery Park City Authority,
1985-89. Did advance on Bruce Babbitt's presidential campaign,
1988. M.P.A. Kennedy School of Government, 1988. B.A. in
liberal arts and public policy from State University of New York at
Stony Brook, 1987. Studied theater arts at San Francisco State
University, 1977-79, and graduate of the two year acting conservatory
program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts West.
