Executive Vice President, Legislative Affairs
As executive 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 also oversees the Dealers Election Action Committee, NADA’s political action committee.
Before joining NADA in 1999, Regan served as legislative counsel for Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., handling legislative and regulatory matters under the jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Regan also practiced 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, LLP. Also, Regan practiced general corporate law with the Lexington, Ky., office of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald.
Regan holds a B.A. in Economics from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., 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).