Clare Hester is one of Mississippi’s top lobbyists and founding partner of Capitol Resources, LLC, the South’s leading government relations firm with offices in Capitols from Austin, TX to Columbia, SC. She is one of the strongest forces at the Mississippi Capitol, successfully waging and winning multiple legislative campaigns each year on behalf of a blue-chip list of businesses clients and trade associations. Her early days as a lobbyist for Mississippi State Medical Association, her experience managing multi-state government relations for a leading national pharmaceutical company, combined with her endless drive to launch and build her own firm have landed her at the forefront of nearly every major legislative initiative of the last two decades. Most notably, she was part of a core group that was at the tip of the spear in the tort reform battles.

Clare is also a passionate advocate for programs that make meaningful change in vulnerable, at-risk children’s lives, including: The Alliance of Mississippi Boys and Girls Clubs which steers at-risk children into success as adults through its after-school and summer programs; Youth Villages that provides intensive home-based alternatives and treatments for children placed into Foster Care and institutions; and Comcast’s Internet Essentials program that provides below-cost computers and internet access to families with children who qualify for free or reduced or lunch programs, and families living in low income housing.