Gail H. Hoffman
Strategic counsel from someone who's been in the most important rooms.
Gail H. Hoffman is the founder and president of The Hoffman Group, with more than three decades of experience across federal and state government, politics, business, and nonprofit advocacy. She has been at the forefront of some of the nation's highest-profile policy debates — transforming thorny or peripheral issues into national agenda items with substantial public policy results.
From 1987 to 1992, as Legislative Director for Handgun Control, Inc., she led the historic legislative campaigns that passed the Brady Law and the federal assault weapons ban — landmark victories against the powerful gun lobby.
In the Clinton Administration, she worked in the White House — in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff and the White House Counsel's office, including on Attorney General-designate Janet Reno's confirmation team — before joining the U.S. Department of Justice as Special Assistant to the Attorney General for Legislative Affairs and, later, Director of its Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs.
She founded The Hoffman Group in 1995 and, in 2003, served as Director of Surrogates in John Kerry's presidential campaign war room. Since then she has built high-profile, successful operations in politics, public affairs, and business — devising innovative strategies and amplifying the authoritative voices within the coalitions she builds.
She has long been an early adopter of the tools that reshape advocacy — building some of the first public affairs websites in the early days of the web — and today she is at the forefront of putting AI to work for the public good, advising clients on how to use it effectively and as a force multiplier.