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Jeff Solsby

Jeffrey Solsby is a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs professional who directs advocacy campaigns, media relations, marketing and communications for a prominent trade association.  Previously, Solsby served as a managing director with Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-headquartered international public affairs firm providing strategic counsel in support of public policy, crisis communications, corporate communications and government relations efforts for major trade associations, Fortune 100 companies and large corporations.  From 2001-2005, Mr. Solsby worked in his native Southern California.  He spent nearly three years with Anaheim-based Curt Pringle & Associates.  He provided government relations and public affairs counsel for a number of high profile local government and private clients.  He also conducted lobbying and advocacy work in Sacramento, Washington D.C., and with Southern California local government entities.  Previously, Mr. Solsby was chief of staff for California Assemblyman Todd Spitzer and earlier served as communications director for Spitzer during his service on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.  From 1997-2001, Solsby served on Capitol Hill as a senior staff member for two members of Congress, including former Rep. James Rogan (R-Calif).  Throughout Rep. Rogan's two terms in office, Solsby served as the congressman's campaign and official spokesman including during the 1998-1999 impeachment proceedings involving former President Clinton where Rogan served as a House Impeachment Manager.   Solsby also served as spokesman for Rogan's 1998 and 2000 re-election campaigns, the latter the most expensive House race in history generating international media attention.Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, Solsby was a press assistant with the Dole-Kemp 1996 presidential campaign and an intern in the press office of Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle.Born in Pasadena and raised in Newport Beach, Solsby received his B.A. from California State University, Chico.  He and his wife, Michelle, reside in Alexandria, Virginia with their two daughters.

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