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Millicent Hodge is a Harvard educated attorney who now brings her skills and associations to Wheat Government Relations. She has an impressive record of successes at every endeavor and in particular knows to get things done in the federal government. She has worked in two presidential campaigns including managing the daily operations of the public liaison section of the Clinton/Gore campaign. Appointed by the President to serve as Director of the New Markets Initiative in the U.S. Small Business Administration, she helped create one of President Clinton’s most successful programs, generating billions in new investment to urban and rural areas.
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Millicent served as the deputy to the Deputy Campaign Manager for the Clinton Gore Presidential Campaign in 1996. In that capacity she served as a surrogate speaker for and as the deputy supervisor of the second largest department of the re-election campaign. She participated in senior campaign staff meetings, daily Political Department meetings chaired by the Deputy Campaign Manager for Political Affairs, and weekly meetings of the Women’s Working Group.
In 2000 she was asked by the Gore Lieberman Presidential Campaign to serve on several White House task forces and working groups, including the White House Office for One America Task Force, the White House Working Group on the Mississippi Delta and the White House New Markets Working Group during government tenure. While in this position she provided regular briefings at the White House and additionally briefed Members of Congress, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Rainbow/Push Coalition’s Wall Street Project.
Ms. Hodge is admitted to practice law in New York, Washington, D.C. and Georgia, and has practiced law in law firms in Manhattan and Atlanta. In Atlanta she worked with the law firm of Arnall, Golden & Gregory in Atlanta, Georgia, where she handled legal matters for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. In New York she was the Associate Commissioner for Governmental Affairs serving as liaison to the City Council, State Legislature and U.S. Congress.
In addition to her domestic law experience Mrs. Hodge worked with the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights in which she conducted a human rights study of the three branches of government of Liberia three weeks prior to the coup d’etat and ongoing war. During this process she interviewed judges, lawyers, elected officials, journalists and students to obtain information that she later reported to members of both the Senate and House.
Prior to attending Harvard Law School she graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
