Council on American Politics

Jack N. Gerard
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Mining Association

Jack N. Gerard was elected president and chief executive officer of the National Mining Association (NMA) in December 2000 following a successful career in private business and on Capitol Hill.

Gerard's most important objective since joining NMA has been to focus the organization's human and financial resources on the key priorities of its membership. Consistent with that objective, Gerard has accomplished a reorganization of NMA's committee structure and staff--streamlining operations, identifying core competencies, and modernizing the association's communications capabilities.

Prior to joining NMA, Gerard was a founding partner and chairman and chief executive officer of McClure, Gerard & Neuenschwander, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based government relations consulting firm, focusing on a variety of issues including mining and energy.

He currently serves on the National Capital Area Council - Boy Scouts of America Executive Board; the George Washington University's Council on American Politics Advisory Board and the university's Graduate School of Political Management - Dean's Advisory Committee; the National Energy Foundation's Board of Directors and the Mineral Information Institute.

A graduate of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Juris Doctorate degree, Gerard and his wife, Claudette, reside in Virginia with their six children.

Jack Oliver is National Finance Vice-Chairman for Bush-Cheney 2004.

Jack was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Republican National Committee in January of 2001 and served as the chief operating officer overseeing all day-to-day operations and maintained substantial involvement with campaigns at all levels across the country during the historic 2002 GOP victories.

Prior to his appointment to the RNC, Jack was the National Finance Director for then Governor George W. Bush's Presidential Campaign. The campaign shattered all previous Presidential fundraising records by raising a record of over $100 million dollars including raising $37 million in only 120 days.

Before joining the Bush campaign, Jack served in various political, financial and managerial roles in the campaigns and government offices of Senator John Ashcroft, Senator John Danforth, Senator Kit Bond, Congressman Jim Talent, Congressman Bill Emerson and the Missouri Republican Party.

Jack is an adjunct professor at George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. He serves as a Board member on the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, as an Advisory Council member of the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University, and is involved with the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.

Jack was raised in Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, Missouri. He received a bachelor's degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He and his wife Rachel reside in Washington, D.C. and Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

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