Claire Gastanaga

Current

• Owner at CG2 Consulting
• Private Practitioner at Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, Esquire (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• General Campaign Consultant at Baskerville for Lt. Governor
• Chief Deputy Attorney General at Commonwealth of Virginia
• Attorney at Hogan and Hartson

• Interim President at Chatham College

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Education

• University of Virginia School of Law
• Michigan State University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Claire

Connections

337 connections

Industry

Public Policy

Claire Gastanaga’s Summary

Consultant and lawyer with more than 30 years government relations and political experience at local, state and federal levels.

Significant governance and management experience in public and not for profit organizations.

Able to define strategy for solving problems or moving ahead in business or in politics.

Experienced and highly rated speaker and panelist on a variety of topics including effective advocacy, nonprofit governance and women's business issues.

Visionary leader available to help transition not for profit organizations and educational institutions.

Claire Gastanaga’s Specialties:

Strategic planning and positioning.

Not for profit governance and management.

Transition management.

Business and public policy advocacy for small, women and minority owned businesses.

Women voters and women candidates.

Claire Gastanaga’s Experience

• Owner

  CG2 Consulting

  (Government Relations industry)

  Currently holds this position

• Private Practitioner

  Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, Esquire (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Law Practice industry)

  January 1994 — Present (15 years 11 months)

  I am licensed to practice law in Virginia and the District of Columbia, and I provide legal advice to a very few clients of my choosing usually restricted to constitutional or legislative issues, not-for-profit governance issues or senstive personnel or regulatory matters. I have been retained to provide counsel to law firms and have become involved in litigation principally at the appellate level on constitutional issues. For example, I served as appellate counsel to the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus on redistricting issues.

• General Campaign Consultant

  Baskerville for Lt. Governor

  (Government Relations industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

• Chief Deputy Attorney General

  Commonwealth of Virginia

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

  January 1986 — January 1994 (8 years 1 month)

  I spent eight years as Deputy Attorney General and Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia. During that period, I helped lobby successfully for passage of more than 85 bills and resolutions, argued cases in the Virginia Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, managed the attorney hiring function and, ultimately served as the number two in a public law firm of with more than 250 employees and a $17m budget.

• Attorney

  Hogan and Hartson

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

  June 1982 — January 1986 (3 years 8 months)

  Helped to develop the firm's education practice, particularly its higher education practice.

• Interim President

  Chatham College

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 1982 — July 1983 (1 year )

Additional Information

Claire Gastanaga’s Interests:

Public policy advocacy, strategy in the broadest possible sense of the word, organizational development, not for profit management and governance, marketing to women, connecting women to power, walking, mysteries

Claire Gastanaga’s Groups:

National Association of Women Business Owners (National Board of Directors, Richmond Chapter Member), Virginia Small Business Advisory Board (gubernatorial appointment), Metro Richmond Convention Center and Visitors Bureau Board (former member), Society of Human Resources Management, Member, Board of Directors, Gay Community Center of Richmond, Virginia Lobbyists, Virginia State Government, Advantech, Make Women Count, Virginia Democratic Party, Virginia Lobbyists, Richmond Business Community

•    MSU Alumni Association
•    Speakers and Panelists
•    Women Partner
•    Ladies Who Launch
•    Urban Financial Services Coalition (UFSC formerly NAUB)
•    National Association of Women Business Owners
•    Colaborando Juntos
•    University of Virginia School of Law Alumni
•    NSA Virginia
•    Leadership Metro Richmond Alumni
•    The Woman's Advantage Calendar Group
•    Equality Virginia
•    Leadership Metro Richmond (LMR)
•    Fundraising Fun and Fantasy

Claire Gastanaga’s Honors:

Virginia Small Business Advisory Board Member of the Year 2008, Quote Included in the 2009 Women's Advantage Calendar; 2007 Nominee for Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, MUSE Award, 2004 NAWBO Chapter Public Policy Advocate of the Year, 2003 SBA Virginia Women in Business Advocate, 1994 Richmond YWCA Woman of the Year in Law, 1988 Fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys

Claire Gastanaga’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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