Brian W. Schoeneman
Brian W. Schoeneman currently serves as political and legislative director for the Seafarers International Union of North America (AFL-CIO), the nation’s largest maritime labor union representing merchant mariners in the deep sea, inland and Great Lakes trades.He has previously served as special assistant and senior speechwriter to Bush Administration Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao, from 2008-2009. In that capacity, he served as the Secretary’s lead liaison to organized labor and served as a member of the senior staff.
His private sector experience includes his role as Managing Partner of Acacia Strategies LLC, a transportation-focused lobbying firm he founded in 2009. Before his government service, he was Executive Director of the American Maritime Congress from 2006 to 2008, and Government Affairs Director at the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (AFL-CIO) from 2003-2006.
He received his Master of Arts degree in Political Management at the Graduate School of Political Management of the George Washington University in 2004. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the George Washington University in 2001. He is a 2011 Juris Doctor candidate at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, where he served on the Law Review during 2009-2010. His Law Review Comment, The Scarlet “L” – Have Recent Developments in Lobbying Regulation Gone Too Far? will be published this winter in Volume 60 of the Catholic University Law Review.
He lives in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife KayAnn and son Nicholas.
