Jean Card
Managing Associate

Jean Card joined CLS in 2007, bringing with her more than a dozen years of strategic communications, executive writing and public policy experience. Ms. Card has worked in non-profit membership associations and in the executive branch of the U.S. government.

As a cabinet-level speechwriter from 2001-2007, Ms. Card wrote speeches for the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Attorney General. Her work included major policy speeches on a wide variety issues, from women’s entrepreneurship, economic security and entitlement reform to law enforcement and the war on terrorism.

Ms. Card also served as the Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Communications at the U.S. Small Business Administration. She is a veteran of the small-business community, having also worked for five years as a communications specialist at the National Federation of Independent Business.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Card was a Task Force Director at the American Legislative Exchange Council, where she managed the coordination of two task forces of state legislators, state-and federal-level lobbyists. Her issue areas at ALEC included both education and tort reform.

Ms. Card received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Middlebury College in Vermont.