About Kerr Government Strategies

wide range of industries on government relations matters at the state level, including alcohol beverage control, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, state budgetary finances, insurance, banking and technology.

Ms. Kerr’s practice focuses on lobbying before the Virginia General Assembly and the Executive Branch. She has significant experience crafting comprehensive legislative strategy, including grass roots campaigns, for clients. She has a wide array of relationships with Virginia’s policy leaders, committee chairs and key legislative leaders. One of Ms. Kerr’s skills is negotiating Virginia’s budget process. In addition to legislative advocacy, she represents clients before administrative agencies in Virginia’s regulatory process. Ms. Kerr offers her clients extensive understanding and expertise from her career in state government and Virginia politics.

Before starting her own firm, Ms. Kerr worked as an attorney and government relations counsel for 17 years with a leading Virginia law firm. In previous positions, she served as legislative counsel to Waste Management of Virginia and as Policy Advisor to Lieutenant Governor Don Beyer advocating the Lieutenant Governor’s legislative initiatives before the General Assembly. Prior to her tenure with Beyer, Ms. Kerr worked as Special Assistant to the Director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), serving as a liaison with members of the General Assembly and working on regulatory and policy matters.

In the political arena, Ms. Kerr advises statewide candidates and General Assembly members on policy issues and fundraising strategies. She served as a policy advisory to Governor Northam on his Transition Team. She also worked with Governors McAuliffe and Kaine as a member of their Transition Teams. On the local level, Ms. Kerr has served as a Transition Team policy advisor to two Richmond mayors, served on her local city tourism council and worked on several local government races.

Representative Experience Snapshot

• Represented Virginia Wineries Association in enacting an overhaul to the Virginia Farm Wine statute and worked with the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Board in implementation.
• Secured funding for not-for-profit health innovation entity to establish a research consortium and study Virginia’s primary care physician needs.
• Won passage of pharmaceutical pedigree and transparency legislation for the Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers of America and served on Virginia Board of Pharmacy’s Regulatory Advisory Committee to craft regulations.
• Represented coalition of local governments before the Virginia General Assembly to establish the VA Opioid Abatement Authority.
• Represented American Express in a years-long study of legislation pertaining to database breach notification and assisted with drafting of current Virginia law.
• Represented Fidelity National Title to secure changes in Virginia’s mechanic lien law.
• Represented local governments on necessary budget and statutory amendments for reversion from a city to a town.
• Served on Virginia Division of Motor vehicle workgroups related to Virginia’s Salvage Vehicles statutes and regulations.
• Represented municipal electric system to obtain legislation giving cities and towns that operate their own electric systems additional statutory authority to make wholesale purchases of electric power.

Honors
Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite in Legislative & Regulatory Law (2008, 2009, 2011 – 2025)

Community Involvement

• • College of William and Mary, Board of Visitors 2016-2024
  • Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, former Board Member
  • Mount Vernon – former Board Member
  • Virginia Public Access Project, former Board Member
  • Model General Assembly, YMCA – Volunteer
  • Fan District Association, Richmond – Volunteer

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