Tom Josefiak, Partner

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HoltzmanVogel PLLC is pleased to announce that former RNC Chief Counsel and FEC Chairman Tom Josefiak has joined the firm as Partner. Josefiak will enhance the firm’s political law practice with an emphasis on campaign finance and election law. Jill Holtzman Vogel, managing partner, said, “Tom’s thirty years of experience with campaign finance and election law will enable the firm to provide enhanced services to corporate, PAC, candidate, political party and interest group clients. Tom is truly the lion of the campaign finance bar and we are thrilled that he will be joining HoltzmanVogel.”

Tom Josefiak said, “I am pleased to be joining a firm with this depth of experience in political law, and look forward to serving an ever-expanding base of clients.”

Josefiak joins HoltzmanVogel after serving as Of Counsel at the Republican National Committee and Of Counsel to the 2008 Republican National Convention. Josefiak previously served as the Chief Counsel of the RNC. He was responsible for the day-to-day legal operations of the RNC including ensuring that all activities of the RNC, its officers and employees are in compliance with applicable federal and state election laws. Tom served in various legal positions at the RNC from 1992 until 1995 when he became the Chief Counsel. In May of 2003, Josefiak was asked to serve as General Counsel for Bush-Cheney ’04, where he was responsible for all of the campaign’s legal matters. Following the 2004 election, he served as General Counsel to the 55th Presidential Inaugural Committee. At the conclusion of the 2005 Inauguration, Josefiak returned to the RNC as Chief Counsel.

In 1985 President Ronald Reagan appointed Josefiak to a six-year term as Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC). He served as FEC Chairman during the 1988 presidential election, and as Vice Chairman of the FEC and Chairman of the Finance Committee in 1987. Prior to his appointment as FEC Commissioner, Josefiak was Special Deputy to the Secretary of the Senate from 1981 to 1985, representing the Secretary as a full-time, Ex-Officio Commissioner at the FEC. As Special Counsel to the Minority of the Committee on House Administration from 1977 to 1979, he assisted Republican members in proposing and amending election law legislation, resulting in the passage of the 1979 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act. He was Counsel to the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1977 to 1980, and served as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Rep. Silvio Conte (R-Mass). Josefiak, a native of Adams, Mass., is a graduate of Fairfield University in Connecticut and Georgetown University Law School.