Mark T. Bowles
Executive Vice President
State Government Relations
Mark T. Bowles is an executive vice president at McGuireWoods Consulting LLC and a partner in McGuireWoods LLP. His practice focuses on state and local government relations, and he represents clients on issues dealing with environmental law, energy, technology, telecommunications, healthcare, higher education and alcoholic beverage control. Over the past 10 years, he has helped lead several high-profile legislative victories in Virginia and helped coordinate legislative initiatives in states throughout the South and mid-Atlantic. In addition, Mark represents a number of clients on matters before Virginia's state agencies and commissions and serves on McGuireWoods' Government Contracts and Regulatory Solutions group. Mark also chairs McGuireWoods' State Political Action Committee
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Mark served as an Assistant Attorney General in Virginia for four years prior to becoming legislative counsel for a multi-state utility association. From 1994 to 1997, he served as chief of staff to Rep. L.F. Payne (D-VA). Governor Mark Warner and Governor Tim Kaine appointed him as Virginia's representative on the Southern Global Strategies Council of the Southern Growth Policies Board and to the Board of Visitors at James Madison University.
Mark has been involved in Virginia politics for over 20 years during which time he has managed two statewide campaigns in Virginia and numerous legislative races. He also served as research assistant to nationally renowned political author and commentator Larry J. Sabato at the University of Virginia.
Education
- University of Richmond, J.D., T.C. Williams School of Law, 1989
- James Madison University, B.A., 1986
Memberships
- Virginia State Bar, Admitted 1989
- Virginia Bar Association
- Richmond Bar Association
- Board Member, James Madison University Board of Visitors
- Board Member, University of Virginia Center for Politics
- Board Member, Virginia Forever
- Board Member, Goochland Economic Development Authority
- Former Council Member, Southern Global Strategies Council
- Commissioner, Goochland representative on Hanover Health District Commission
- Founding Board Member, Goochland United Soccer Association
- Advisory Board Member, Virginia Public Access Project
Past Positions
- Chief-of-Staff, U.S. Representative L.F. Payne, Fifth District-Virginia, 1994-1997
- Clerk, Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, 1994
- Counsel and Government Affairs Coordinator, Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives, 1994
- Assistant Attorney General & Director of Public Policy, Office of the Attorney General, 1989-1993
- Research Assistant, University of Virginia, Professor Larry J. Sabato, PAC POWER: Inside the World of Political Action Committees (Norton 1984), 1984-1985
- Contracts & State/Local Procurement
- Executive and Legislative Affairs
- Local Government Relations
- Multi-state Government Relations
- State Government Relations
- Economic Development
- Education
- Energy
- Healthcare
- Information Technology & Telecom
- Insurance and Financial
- Land Use & Environmental
- Local Government
- Manufacturing
- Public Safety
