Jim Dyer

Jim Dyer is managing director at Clark & Weinstock. He joined the firm after more than ten years as the clerk and staff director of the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives. He served in this capacity from January 1995 to February 2004. He supervised the activities of a 150-person professional staff in discharging the Committee’s responsibility to produce 13 annual appropriations bills. Prior to becoming clerk and staff director, Mr. Dyer served as a professional staff assistant on the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Foreign Operations where he handled a variety of State and Defense Department issues and on the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch were he worked to fund the activities of Congress and its supporting agencies.

From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Dyer worked at the White House as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and served as the principal point of contact for the President with the United States Senate. In this endeavor, he managed the defense, foreign policy, judiciary, intelligence and commerce portfolios for the Senate legislative affairs office and supervised the confirmation process for all Presidential nominees. From 1987 to 1989 he served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and worked on House legislative matters, specializing in the defense, foreign policy, and appropriations areas. He was responsible for overall management operation of the legislative affairs office in the West Wing of the White House.

From 1985 to l987, Mr. Dyer handled legislative affairs for the U.S. Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs for the House of Representatives, Acting Secretary of State for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. In these positions, he supervised the day-to-day operations of the Department’s legislative staff and worked to secure passage of the Administration’s foreign policy legislation and matters related to arms control, foreign military assistance, and trade.

Mr. Dyer also worked in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 through 1984 as a press secretary/legislative assistant to the Honorable Joseph M. McDade (R-PA) and later as Congressman McDade’s administrative assistant, supervising a staff of 18, and then as the Congressman’s Appropriations Committee’s principal staff assistant, having responsibility for his Interior Subcommittee duties.

He also held the following positions: budget consultant to the Secretary of the Navy; Director of Washington Relations for Philip Morris Companies, Inc.; Director of Government Affairs, Power Systems Division, United Technologies Corporation; and government affairs consultant for Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnson, ETA Associates, Inc.

Mr. Dyer is a member of the Board of Director’s of Ford’s Theatre where he serves as Chairman of its Finance Committee. He is a member of the Army Science Board, the Chairman’s Advisory Board at the U.S. Institute for Peace and a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Dyer is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds the Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Navy.

Mr. Dyer was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. from the University of Scranton and has done graduate work in Legislative Affairs at George Washington University. He holds an honorary Doctor of Human Letters from the University of Scranton. He is married to Margia L. Carter and resides in Annandale, Virginia.