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Andy Bowers has decades of experience representing publicly traded and privately held companies, nonprofit organizations, and professional associations before the Ohio General Assembly, Governor’s Office, and other executive branch departments and agencies. Andy also serves as special counsel to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

Andy has an extensive background in the fields of government affairs and public administration. In 2005, Andy opened the Columbus office of Keating, Muething & Klekamp, PLL, a large Cincinnati based law firm. There, he represented Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, professional associations, and small businesses before many state departments and agencies.

Andy works with elected leaders on a daily basis to influence public policy in Ohio. Whether representing a client large or small, Andy has a track record of success. In 2019, as the lobbyist for the Ohio Public Transit Association, Andy secured a record $70 million in annual funding for public transit in Ohio. This is nearly double the largest investment the state has ever made in public transit. In 2018, representing Huntington Bank, Andy drove passage of the first comprehensive banking reform bill in a generation, saving banks like Huntington millions of dollars annually. On behalf of Providence House, a Cleveland non-profit social service organization, Andy authored and drove passage of the first crisis care facility legislation in the United States. That law is now the basis of similar legislation introduced in more than a dozen states.

In 2003 and 2004, Andy served as Deputy Chief of Staff for then Ohio Auditor of State Betty Montgomery. As a member of the Auditor’s Senior Staff, he was responsible for directing the office’s policy initiatives and nine-member regional liaison staff. In addition, Bowers formed and chaired the Auditor’s Regional Advisory Boards, composed of elected officials from all levels of government. These boards advised the Auditor of State on issues of government finance and accountability.

From 2000-2003, Andy served as Deputy Director, then Director of Special Counsel to then Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery. There, he managed over $35 million in annual legal contracts with 400 law firms in 28 states and three foreign countries. He also managed Ohio’s cases against Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing for securities fraud against Ohio’ public pension funds. In addition, Bowers oversaw a record-setting $128 million in annual collections of money owed to the state.

Upon joining the Ohio Attorney General’s Office in 1999, Andy served as an assistant attorney general in the office’s Juvenile Justice Section where he worked as legal advisor to the office’s Anti-Gang Unit, and represented the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in all day care and foster care licensing hearings. In 2000, Andy served as assistant solicitor in the office’s Major Appeals Group where he worked on landmark cases in the United States Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Andy is actively involved in the community. Since 1997, he has served on the Wittenberg University Alumni Board of Directors. He was in the second graduating class of the Columbus Bar Association’s Barrister Leader Program, and served as a clothing drive coordinator for Volunteers of America. Andy also participates in the Attorney General’s nationally recognized Pro Bono Legal Program, a program developed by Montgomery to provide free legal assistance to low-income Ohioans.

Andy is a 1996 graduate of Wittenberg University, and received his law degree in 1999 from The Ohio State University College of Law. He lives in Blacklick with his wife Angi and sons Jackson and Jacob.