Holly helps clients understand how proposed, existing, and ever-changing local, state, and federal regulations and laws affect their business and ability to operate successfully, frequently and successfully advocating for advantageous changes, while addressing potential threats through the legislative and policymaking processes.
In addition to more than 10 years of lobbying experience, she helps organizations build a strong government relations infrastructure, provides analysis and insights on a national basis, and advises clients on regulatory matters, government enforcement actions, government licensure, procurement and contracting, grantmaking, and political and lobbying activity compliance. She has experience working across numerous subject areas representing a vast array of clients, drafting legislation, and amending the law to achieve their goals. She has successfully secured funding for clients as part of the state biennial Capital Budget and Main Operating Budget, as well as congressionally directed spending items.
In her former role as Vice President of Government Relations for the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, she led the organization’s legislative and executive branch advocacy efforts at the local, state, and federal levels of government to represent more than 2,000 business members. She also managed the Chamber’s workforce development efforts and served as In-House Counsel. Holly previously represented the state’s retail industry before the Ohio General Assembly and Ohio’s congressional delegation, and began her career as a legislative aide in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Holly also practices non-profit law, serving as outside general counsel to numerous tax-exempt organizations, specializing in formation, structure, and governance.
Holly has a strong technical understanding of the Ohio legislative process, and works as an adjunct professor at Capital University Law School, teaching Legislation for a third year.
Representative Experience
- Deployed defensive strategy to prevent adoption of proposed administrative rule that would have had negative business impact on national private equity backed high growth and market-leading Opioid Treatment Program provider.
- Advocated to amend an administrative rule to facilitate business expansion of Opioid Use Disorder treatment to underserved areas.
- Secured pilot workforce development program with the state of Ohio for start-up company client.
- Drafted and introduced legislation to enact tax credit to spur increased investment in community development.
- Secured gubernatiorial veto of last minute proposed legislative language which threatened quality standards for childcare industry.
- National outside government relations counsel for Fortune 500 company.
- Member of lobbying team for nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.
- Advising clients on compliance with state and national lobbying and campaign finance laws.
- Successfully defended small business client against a government enforcement action to prevent license suspension or revocation.