Nicole focuses on legislative and lobbying before the Virginia General Assembly, the Governor’s Office, and the Office of the Attorney General. She regularly partners with clients on drafting legislation, creating and implementing legislative strategies, testifying before legislative committees, lobbying legislators and other government officials, and developing creative solutions to help solve problems within state and local government. She enjoys helping clients have positive and productive interactions with state government.

Nicole regularly assists clients with legislative drafting and statutory interpretation in all 50 states and analyzes how state laws may impact client business. Nicole frequently drafts legislative language, including substitute legislation, amendments to proposed legislation, or model bills for clients that is offered or presented during legislative sessions throughout the country. She understands how quickly state legislatures move, gathers a quick understanding of a client’s business and how it may be impacted, and uses her years of legislative drafting and statutory interpretation experience to provide potential legislative solutions.

Nicole also represents clients in or consults on interactions with the client’s state level regulator, both in Virginia and across the country. 

Prior to co-founding Seven Hills Strategy Group, Nicole was a member of the ReedSmith Government Relations team and was an attorney with the Virginia Division of Legislative Service for five years where she drafted legislation for all members of the General Assembly and served as Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee and the House and Senate Committees on Transportation of the General Assembly and their respective chairpersons. During that time, she drafted hundreds of pieces of legislation including drafting and managing the revision and recodification of a Title of the Code of Virginia. Prior to her work for the Virginia legislature, Nicole worked for the Florida Senate and the Virginia Office of the Attorney General.

Nicole is a board member of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee. She has volunteered with the Junior League of Richmond for the past 13 years and previously served on the Board as the Vice President of Fund Development, overseeing all volunteer fundraising efforts. She is a member of St. Bridget Catholic Church where she served as a lector and as a member of the adult sacrament preparation team, welcoming new parishioners to the Church. She lives in Richmond with her husband and two children.