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Rob Leebern

Practice Area Professionals

President - Federal Affairs, Troutman Sanders Public Affairs Group, LLC

Washington, D.C.
Business Phone: 202.274.2940
Business Fax: 202.654.5617

Rob Leebern has a decade of public policymaking and political experience. Having served as a Chief of Staff for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. Leebern has a breadth of federal legislative and regulatory knowledge and experience.

Currently, he serves as Washington representative to Fortune 500 companies, municipal governments, universities, and a number of other business interests. For ten years, Leebern served as top political aide and Chief of Staff to then Congressman and now U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA).

Mr. Leebern has been active on a wide array of issues relating to agriculture and agribusiness, appropriations, conservation, hunting and wildlife management issues, transportation, defense, environment, health care, homeland security, taxation, and energy. Leebern has worked with the White House and various federal agencies to promote political issues, infrastructure projects, and legislative priorities. He is familiar with the federal and state regulatory process and has worked on a wide variety of projects with U.S. Senators, Congressmen, Congressional Committees, Governors' staffs, state regulatory agencies, and members of the state legislature.

A native of Macon, Georgia, Leebern holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

He has managed winning U.S. Senate and U.S. House races and has advised Republican candidates and incumbents at all levels of government.

In the 2004 Presidential campaign, Leebern served the Bush-Cheney '04 as one of its most successful fundraisers in the country, earning him a slot on the National Finance Committee and a designation as a Bush-Cheney Ranger. Leebern is a member of Leadership Georgia, the Georgia State Society, and serves on The Georgia Republican Foundation Board of Directors. He is also a founding member of The 159 Group and belongs to several other organizations.

In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Leebern to serve on the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Work Experience
Chief of Staff; Office of United States Representative Saxby Chambliss; Washington, DC; 1995-2001
Graduate, Republican Campaign Management College; Campaign Manager, Chambliss for Senate, 2002
Campaign Manager, Chambliss for Congress; 1994

Education

Southern Methodist University, B.A., 1991

Memberships

Member, Leadership Georgia
Member, Georgia State Society
Member, Georgia Republican Foundation