Lobbying World

• Jenifer Healy has joined the public policy and regulation practice at Dentons as a senior managing director. She most recently worked as the health counsel to Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). During her Capitol Hill tenure, she also served as a professional staff member to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and worked on legislative strategies for global health issues. 

• Entergy Corp. has named former General Electric lobbyist Robert Hall III as the vice president of federal governmental affairs. Prior to that, he served as the executive counsel of GE’s various energy technologies, leading its U.S. government affairs department. He has also worked at consulting firm Dutko Worldwide, now known as Grayling, at Koch industries and for former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.). 

• PhRMA hired former Democratic aide Courtney Lee-Ashley as its director of federal advocacy. She will focus on House Democrats and work on patent litigation reform, trade, budget, and appropriations policies for the trade association. Lee-Ashley has served as a consultant for numerous Democratic campaigns and also worked in the office of former Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.).

• K Street powerhouse K&L Gates has named Donald Dempsey as a government affairs counselor in its public policy and law practice. He comes from Breakaway Policy Strategies, but he also worked as the associate director for human resources programs for the Office of Management and Budget, giving him budgetary oversight of several federal agencies. Before that, he worked as the director of health policy for the Senate Budget Committee.

• The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) hired Sean Moulton to work on a project for the organization to help improve government transparency. Moulton formerly worked at another open government organization, the Center for Effective Government, where he managed campaigns to promote transparency and analyzed legislative and regulatory proposals intended to achieve that goal. At POGO, he will “lead efforts to collaboratively develop a ‘blueprint’ the next president can use to build a more open and accountable administration,” the organization said in a release.