Joanna M King Esq.
Director of Government Relations

A native New Yorker, Joanna has had extensive experience in state legislative, private legal practice, trade association and policy research settings providing research and writing, lobbying and consultant services. She completed her bachelor of arts at the University of Vermont with a double major in Economics and Philosophy, earning departmental honors in Economics, the John Dewey Philosophy Award, and induction into Phi Beta Kappa. An attorney for over twenty years, Joanna received her JD from Albany Law School, and is admitted to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia and before the US Supreme Court. She has served as Senior Legislative Counsel at The MayaTech Corporation's Center for Health Policy and Legislative Policy, Legislative Counsel for State Government Relations at the Distilled Spirits Council, and Counsel to the New York State Senate.