Carole B. McGuire

Prior to joining Lewis-Burke in July 2005, Ms. McGuire served as Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee under the Chairmanship of Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM). As Deputy Staff Director, she handled budget and appropriations issues as well as working with Committee professional staff on a broad range of policy issues associated with the comprehensive Energy Policy Act passed in the summer of 2005, the Department of Energy civilian energy R&D programs, and the public lands and water agencies of the Department of Interior and the Forest Service.

Before joining the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in January 2003, Ms. McGuire spent 27 years on the Senate Budget Committee, most recently as the Deputy Staff Director and Director of Appropriations. In her role as Director of Appropriations, she worked on the annual appropriations bills as the principal staffer to then Chairman Senator Pete V. Domenici, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. Ms. McGuire worked with Senate and House Leadership offices and Senate and House Appropriations Committee members and staff on a wide range of funding and policy issues, including science and technology and education issues. This experience gave her extensive knowledge of federal programs and the workings of the White House, Office of Management and Budget, and Executive Branch agencies.

Ms. McGuire received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Western Washington State College in Bellingham, Washington, in 1974.