Democratic
Committees-Organization
2008 Edition --last
updated Sept. 16, 2008
Democratic
Governors' Association
1401 K Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005
Chairman |
Gov. Joe Manchin
III (WV) |
Elected Governor of West
Virginia
in the 2004. Secretary of State from 2000-04. Sought the
Democratic
gubernatorial nomination in 1996. Served in the state legislature
from 1982 to 1996. Owner of Enersystems Inc., a natural resources
company. Ran Manchin’s Carpet Center, a family-owned retail
business.
B.S. in business administration from West Virginia University,
1970.
Grew up in Farmington, WV.
Executive
Director |
Nathan Daschle |
Daschle started at the DGA
as
counsel and director of policy (announced July 6, 2005).
Previously
at the law firm of Covington & Burling. Has worked at AFSCME
and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Graduate of Harvard
Law
School.
Assistant to
the Executive
Director/Political Assistant |
Julia Meyerson |
POLITICAL
Director of
Campaigns
& Elections |
Pam Womack |
Second stint as director
of
campaigns and elections at the DGA. Womack came to the DGA after
serving as political director at the DNC (officially appointed in June
2005, but started working at the DNC on the state partnership project
in
March 2005). Prior to the DNC she was the director of campaigns
and
elections at the DGA, where she worked for six years. Secretary
of
State in Virginia under Gov. Doug Wilder. Executive director of
the
Democratic Party of Virginia.
Deputy Political
Director |
Brinkley Serkedakis |
Experience includes policy
assistant
at the Children's Defense Fund. Graduate of the University of
Alabama.
Deputy Political
Director |
Ray Glendening |
Deputy field director on
Gov.
Bill Richardson's presidential campaign. Previously a political
action
representative at AFSCME.
POLICY/COMMUNICATIONS
Director of
Policy and
Communications |
Mona Mohib |
Joined Peyser Associates
in
February 2001. Leave of absence to serve as political director to
Leadership ’02, Al Gore's political action committee, in 2002.
Mohib
served as Associate Director at the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
at the White House and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental
Affairs
at the Department of Labor during the Clinton Administration.
Press Secretary |
Brian Namey |
Namey started at the DGA
in Nov. 2004 as Manager of Special Projects. Graduate of
Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in international relations and
ethics, history and public policy; served as student body
president.
From New Kensington, PA.
FINANCE
National
Finance Director |
Colleen Turrentine |
Most recently national
finance
director on Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign. She also
served
as the National Finance Director at the Democratic Leadership
Council.
Worked finance on Joe Lieberman's presidential campaign but left in
Oct.
2003. Graduate of St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
Deputy Finance
Directors |
Lindsay Baker
David Reid |
Finance
Assistant |
Brian Footer
|
National
Development Director |
Shannon White
|
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Director of
Operations |
Donna Tappin |
Chief
Financial Officer |
Ben Metcalf |
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