Jade C West

Ms. West is Senior Vice President-Government Relations for the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. She also serves as Executive Director of the Wholesaler-Distributor Political Action Committee. Ms. West is the senior lobbyist for NAW, advocating the interests of the wholesale distribution industry in Washington both on Capitol Hill and with executive branch departments and agencies. In addition, she is Executive Secretariat of the 1,000-member Tax Relief Coalition, of the Coalition for Affordable American Energy and of the LIFO Coalition; a Steering Committee member of the Alliance for Tax Fairness and Growth; and on the Management Committee of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), which leads the opposition to organized labor’s effort to remove secret ballot elections from union certification elections and force employers into binding “interest arbitration” in negotiating contracts.