Jonathan oversees the policy team and legal strategy at Cicero, focusing on healthcare, regulatory reform, and workforce policies. He also runs the Law & Policy fellowship program. Before joining Cicero, he led the policy office at the U.S. Department of Labor in the Trump Administration and served as a Policy Analyst at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the Bush Administration. With a decade of experience in complex litigation and government regulatory legal advising at an international law firm, Jonathan brings extensive expertise to his role.
Jonathan is inspired by Cicero’s combination of intellectual rigor and entrepreneurial ambition to create and implement innovative ideas. He believes states can only serve as laboratories of democracy with good ideas to try, and Cicero facilitates this process. Jonathan has authored editorials for the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, National Review, and STAT News.
He holds an AB in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. In law school, he was Chief Justice of the Moot Court Board and President of the Law Christian Fellowship. Jonathan has testified on various policy issues and authored “The Great Debate,” a debate textbook. He has also trained and coached debaters globally for 25 years. He lives in Virginia with his wife and four children.
