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Donna Lucas on www.lucaspublicaffairs.com

"Donna is the founder and principal of Lucas Public Affairs. One of the nation’s foremost public affairs strategists, Donna is a widely recognized expert in media relations and political affairs and has provided strategic counsel to large corporate clients, labor unions, non-profits, initiative campaigns and political candidates.

Donna began Lucas Public Affairs in 2006 after serving as deputy chief of staff for strategic planning and initiatives for Gov. Schwarzenegger and chief of staff to First Lady Maria Shriver. She was the global public affairs practice leader for Porter Novelli, an international PR firm, after Porter Novelli acquired Nelson Communications Group, where she served as CEO and president for many years.

Lucas served previously as deputy press secretary for Governor George Deukmejian, deputy treasurer for Tom Hayes, and as California press secretary for President George H.W. Bush. She was the chairperson of the American Association of Political Consultants and a member of the California Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Lucas currently serves on the board of the Public Policy Institute of California, the Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women and California Forward.

In August 2008 Donna was named one of Sacramento Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful and Influential” people in the Sacramento region. A 1982 graduate of the University Of Southern California School Of Journalism, Donna and her husband, political saturist and former Bureau Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, Greg Lucas, live in Sacramento with their teenage daughter, Katie."