State Affairs: Mueller

By CQ Roll Call Staff

The California Military Department oversees the state’s National Guard and military reserves, and Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed former U.S. House aide Andreas Mueller as the department’s chief of federal policy and liaison in Washington.

Mueller

Mueller, 30, got his start in politics as a campaign aide to Rep. Jerry McNerney , a California Democrat, whom he joined in Washington as a legislative aide from 2007 to 2009. After that, Mueller was legislative director for Rep. Glenn Nye, a Virginia Democrat who served from 2009 to 2011 and was a member of the Armed Services Committee.

After Nye lost re-election in 2010 to Republican Scott Rigell , Mueller studied for a master’s degree in public policy at Georgetown University.

Tim Riordan

Northern Virginia-based Stateside Associates tracks legislation and regulations in state and local governments for businesses, trade groups and nonprofits. To help the firm recruit new businesses as clients, Stateside has hired Tim Riordan as a vice president for client services.

For the past year and a half, Riordan managed member recruitment and retention for the D.C. Chamber of Commerce and was the chamber’s representative for the launch of a Small Business Administration pilot program to increase the number of small businesses in the District eligible for a federal program that sets aside government contracts for impoverished areas.

Riordan, 37, previously was sales director for the Network for Good, a nonprofit that provides online fundraising tools.