Gerald S. J. Cassidy
Marty Russo
Gregg L. Hartley
DAWN LEVY
Senior Vice President
Dawn Levy brings a wealth of high-level experience in tax, transportation, energy, and finance to Cassidy & Associates. Our clients require expert counsel on these issues from professionals who know the ins and outs of politics and legislation. Dawn Levy offers to Cassidy & Associates clients a level of service that comes only from serving on the staff of the Senate Finance Committee.
Ms. Levy joined Cassidy & Associates after serving as Tax Counsel to Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), the current Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Her specialty is tax code financing. She advised Senator Baucus on transportation and energy finance and tax matters including tax credits and incentives, tax reform, bonding, fuel issues, innovative infrastructure financing and public/private partnerships. In this role, she led Finance staff efforts on issues such as funding for the transportation reauthorization bill, ethanol incentive provisions/fuel tax issues in the Senate and in conference with House Ways and Means Committee, and the Grassley/Baucus Infrastructure Bonding proposal. She also authored sections of the TEA 21 Reauthorization, and coordinated staff and lobbying efforts to secure protection of the Highway Trust Fund.
Ms. Levy brings considerable experience in working at the nexus of federal and state governments. Prior to her role with the Finance Committee, Ms. Levy worked for the National Conference of State Legislatures, where she staffed, coordinated and counseled the Energy and Transportation Committee (150 state legislators) on federal transportation and energy issues (focusing on tax matters) in order to develop NCSL policy/lobbying position, lobbied both House and Senate committees, individual members of Congress and the administration on both transportation and energy tax issues. Ms Levy’s tax and transportation expertise was strengthened by her tenures at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America and the American Trucking Association.
Dawn Levy holds a Master of Arts in Legislative Affairs from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
