John A. Boehner

Hon. John A. Boehner is a senior strategic advisor with Squire Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C.,and Cincinnati, where he focuses on helping to remove government barriers to economic growth and job creation while providing high-level strategic advice to the firm’s global clientele. The 53rdSpeaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, he joined the Squire Patton Boggs public policy team during the autumn of 2016. Speaker Boehner led the U.S. House from January 2011 to October 2015, a time during which he navigated some of the most difficult legislative challenges of the modern era and forged strong relationships with business and government leaders throughout the world. A former small businessman who entered public service because of his desire to remove barriers to economic growth and private-sector job-creation, Speaker Boehner provides strategic advice and consulting to clients on all aspects of domestic and international policy, drawing from his decades of experience both in business and at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Prior to entering public service, he spent years running a small business representing manufacturers in the packaging and plastics industry. He represented the people of Ohio’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House for nearly 25 years, leading the reform-minded “Gang of Seven” in the early 1990s that closed the scandal-ridden House Bank and forced a series of institutional changes in Congress, including measures requiring the House to be subject to annual independent audits of its financial records. Speaker Boehner put his small business experience to work for constituents in 1999 by taking over the chairmanship of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Employ-er-Employee Relations, the congressional panel with jurisdiction over the Employee RetirementIncome Security Act (ERISA) and matters of private-sector health care and retirement security pol-icy. In this role, he crafted and successfully advanced measures dealing with employer-sponsored<br>healthcare, pensions, stock options and other employee benefits. Elected by his colleagues as U.S.House Majority Leader in 2006, Speaker Boehner went on to serve as the top Republican leader in the U.S. House for nearly a decade, becoming House Minority Leader following the 2006 elections and leading his party to majority control of the House in 2010. During his first year as Speaker, he helped guide the enactment of legislation for long-sought free-trade agreements with Colombia,Panama and South Korea, and also secured enactment of the Budget Control Act, which required major spending reductions and ultimately resulted in the enactment of the first bipartisan entitlement reforms in many years. Speaker Boehner received his B.A. in 1977 from Xavier University.