Alumnus/Alumna of the Month

Shawn Maher ('87)

Read an Interview with Shawn Maher.

Shawn Maher has been Legislative Director for Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) since 1997. He accepted the position after two years of writing speeches and political and policy briefs for Dodd at the Democratic National Committee.

Maher began his Washington career in 1989 as Legislative Director to then-Representative Joseph Kennedy II (D-MA). In 1993, Maher became Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the House Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance under Kennedy.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1982 and his J.D. from NYU School of Law in 1987, Maher spent two years clerking for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe in the Southern District of New York.