VINCE PHILLIPS has been a registered lobbyist in Harrisburg, PA since 1989. He started PHILLIPS ASSOCIATES April 1, 1999 after over twenty years in Federal and state government relations.
 
He represents a number of clients including Pennsylvania Association of Health Underwriters , Manufacturers Association of South Central PA, PA Septage Management Association, PA Christmas Tree Growers Association, and Crop Insurance Agents Association of PA, etc. He has represented three of the four major Pennsylvania insurance agents' associations, PAHU (health and employee benefits), the Independent Insurance Agents of PA, or Big I, (property/casualty insurance), and the former PA Assn. of Life Underwriters (PALU). He also provided management services to the PA Financial Services Association and the PA Forest Fire Museum Assn (tourism, fund-raising) as well as lobbying for the PA Association for Safety Education, (Driver Education instructors),
 
Selected issues on which he has lobbied include passage of Workers' Compensation reform, changes in the way insurance producers are licensed, health insurance and employee benefits, successful repeal of the 2% annuity tax, business taxation, tort reform, highway safety, agriculture research funding, etc.
 
Prior to being recruited to Pennsylvania, Vince worked in Washington, D. C., as Press Secretary to the National American Wholesale Grocers Association, now part of the Food Marketing Institute. He was a Reagan-Bush Administration political appointee in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Office of the Secretary, Office of Public Liaison, Office of Rural Development Policy). His DC tenure also included work for a U.S. Congressman and service in the Office of the President-Elect (Transition Team) in 1980.
 
Community work has included volunteer service and grant writing for the YMCA and its aquatics program. He initiated a toy/clothing collection from PA to the Navaho Community in Sanastee, New Mexico, on behalf of a 200-family father/daughter YMCA group, which he headed in 1999-2000. He is a lifetime member of the Conodoguinett Creek Watershed Association (conservation), Sayre, PA Historical Society, East Pennsboro Historical Society, and has been an award-winning Toastmasters. He also has taught Catechism at Tree of Life Lutheran Church and served as Debate Coach for Cumberland Valley High School.
 
He is certified by the PA Insurance Department as an instructor, and his firm is approved to offer over 70 Continuing Education courses. From 1996-99, he held the prestigious Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation by the American Society of Association Executives. He was also a member of PASAE (formerly known as PA Society of Association Executives), having served as their government relations committee chairman and Board member.
 
Vince holds a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University South Bend, a Master's from the University of Notre Dame, and a Master's in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He also has a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy granted by Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He and his wife York native Claudia Keiper Phillips have three daughters. They reside in Mechanicsburg (in Cumberland County). Vince is also a non-published writer of science fiction and fantasy.
 
Vince Phillips, 3610 Kent Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
 
(717) 346-1063 Fax (717) 728-1164 E-mail: xenobun@aol.com

 
CLAUDIA PHILLIPS holds a BA degree from Albright College in Reading, PA and an Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in Judicial Administration from the American University in Washington, DC. A native of York, PA, she also has a year of law school and a paralegal certificate. She has point responsibility for several clients and handles the course filing compliance for insurance Continuing Education with the state regulators.
 
JOAN TROUTMAN serves as the registrar for PHILLIPS ASSOCIATES and administers membership data bases, etc. Before joining the firm, she served the former Independent Insurance agents of Pennsylvania as their registrar for over twenty-five years. She is a native of Enola, PA.
 
CHRISTOPHER J. KNIGHT spent nearly nine years as Counsel to the PA Insurance Department before joining the Harrisburg law firm of Hawke McKeon & Sniscak LLP where he focuses on representing insurance producers and Mutual Insurance Companies. At the Department, he served as lead attorney for the MCARE Fund and worked on multi-state investigations of major international insurance companies. He coordinated insurance producer waiver reviews and enforcement investigations and administrative prosecutions related to insurance producers and company compliance and licensing. He is admitted to practice before PA and US Supreme Courts and is a member of the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals as well as the PA Bar Association. He graduated from Penn State with a Bachelor of Humanities and from Widener School of Law with a JD.
 

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