NADA Executive Biography
As vice president of NADA's Legislative Affairs Group, David W. Regan oversees all operations of the association's Capitol Hill office, including communicating with members of Congress and their staffs, directing strategy for legislation that affects new-car and -truck dealers, and helping to coordinate NADA's Washington Conference each fall. Regan was most recently executive director of NADA's Legislative Affairs Group.
Before joining NADA in 1999, Regan served as legislative counsel for Senator Wendell Ford (D-Ky.), handling legislative and regulatory matters under the jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Regan also practice law for several years. In the Washington, D.C. area, his practice focused on representing clients before the U.S. Congress. For four years he managed the Washington office of Newberry, Hargrove & Rambicure, a Kentucky-based law firm, and for six years he practiced with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. Also, Regan practiced general corporate law with Lexington, Kentucky office of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald.
Regan holds a B.A. in Economics from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Kentucky (inactive status).
The National Automobile Dealers Association, founded in 1917 and based in McLean, Va., represents more than 20,000 new car and truck dealers, holding over 43,000 separate franchises, both domestic and import.