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By The Hill Staff
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Posted: 02/19/08 06:07 PM [ET] |
• Betsy Vickers has joined Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a policy adviser, working on the government relations team in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Vickers, before joining the firm, spent four years working for Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), advising him on a number of issues, including healthcare, transportation and welfare.
• James A. Sartucci has joined Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis as a government affairs counselor. Sartucci was a legislative director for former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), once the GOP whip in the Senate before his resignation late last year. Sartucci has also served several years on the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee.
• Scott McClellan has joined APCO Worldwide as a member of its international advisory council. McClellan was the White House press secretary from 2003 to 2006. He also is the senior vice president of corporate and government affairs at HHB Inc.
• Nancy Stetson has joined the Sheridan Group as vice president of policy and client services. Stetson was a former senior policy adviser to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and spent 26 years as a staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
• The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) has named two new vice presidents, Wendy K.D. Selig and Lisa Lacasse. Selig, a former aide to then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) who joined ACS CAN’s sister organization, the American Cancer Society, in 2000, will head up external affairs and strategic alliances. A former chief financial officer for the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Lacasse will lead operations and strategic integration at the group.
• Stuart B. Nibley has joined Dickstein Shapiro as a partner in the firm’s government contracts practice. Prior to joining the firm, Nibley was a partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner. |
