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Charlie, Cincinnati, Ohio’s longest-serving mayor, advises Calfee’s clients primarily on government relations and legislation matters. Charlie offers extensive experience and knowledge of governmental issues. He held the mayoral office of the City of Cincinnati from 1983 to 1991 and then again from 1999 to December of 2005. In addition to his experience as mayor, he also served as a congressman in the United States House of Representatives for one term and practiced law in the private sector for 14 years. Some of Charlie’s most notable initiatives as mayor include the expansion of the Greater Cincinnati Convention Center and the formation of the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation. He also retained and created over 10,000 jobs and helped raise substantial funding for arts organizations during his terms. Committed to improving race relations, Charlie formed Cincinnati CAN, a roundtable of community leaders working to improve Cincinnati’s economic and racial climate. Charlie has been honored with the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission Leadership Award, 2005 Man of the Year from the Cincinnati SPCA, and elected 2005 leader of the year by the African Methodist Episcopal Churches. He also has served on the boards of Cincinnati Art Museum, CincyTech USA Leadership, Cincinnati Retirement System, Cincinnati Youth Collaborative and has served as chairman of Downtown Cincinnati, Inc. Charlie has been a member of Success by Six Community Conference, Fifth Third Charlotte Schmidlapp Fund, and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He received an honorary doctorate of humanities from the Cincinnati State Technical College. Charlie joined Calfee’s Government Relations and Legislation group in 2006. | 