Jeff Viohl

Jeff Viohl is founder and President of Viohl and Associates, a Washington-based government relations firm established in 1998, which specializes in state and federal policy consulting and advocacy services. Mr. Viohl has over 25 years of experience working on federal, state and local legislative, appropriations, and regulatory issues.

This experience includes serving as a legislative staff member and state office director for U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as Director of Government Relations for New York University, and as both Assistant Budget Director and Federal Liaison for the State of Indiana. Mr. Viohl received a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from American University, and has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1987.

For 13 years, under three Governors, Mr. Viohl represented the State of Indiana in Washington, D.C. Mr. Viohl also served as both Vice Chair and Chair of the Staff Advisory Council of the NGA Committee on Human Resources. In these positions, he helped to guide the development of policy statements used by the National Governors Association to lobby a range of health, education, workforce, criminal justice and social services issues.

In his work for Indiana, Mr. Viohl took an active role in lobbying major state-federal policies such as the 1996 welfare reform legislation, several highway program reauthorization bills, tobacco settlement legislation, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), state fiscal relief legislation, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Workforce Investment Act, and Medicaid reform.

Other clients of Viohl and Associates have included UnitedHealth Group, the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition (NEVC), Roche Diagnostics Corporation, the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE), Imagitas/PitneyBowes, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, the Central Indiana Educational Service Center, and the City of Terre Haute.

Mr. Viohl lives with his wife, Rose, and two daughters, Emily and Megan, in Millersville, Maryland.