Rodney A. Smith

Assistant Vice President of AT&T

Rodney A. Smith is an Assistant Vice President and senior congressional lobbyist for AT&T in their Washington, DC, office. In addition to lobbying Congress for the past 14 years, he is also director of the company's federal political action committee, currently the largest corporate PAC in the country. Mr. Smith's professional background includes tenures as the communications director for a senior member of Congress during the Watergate proceedings, two decades as a communications and government relations executive for three Fortune 500 companies and an extensive background as a newspaper editor, reporter and columnist in Washington, DC. He is also an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in Fine Arts from Johns Hopkins University. He is a former recipient of the University of Georgia's Outstanding Journalism Alumni Award and holds more than 70 state and national awards for writing and editorial excellence.