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Aviation lobbyist takes Senate aviation subcommittee job

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Oct. 2, 2014

A longtime lobbyist and lawyer for several airlines and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has moved to a Senate job overseeing the aviation industry.

Tom Chapman worked for nearly two decades at AOPA beginning in 1981, rising to senior vice president of government and technical affairs by the time of his 1999 departure to Southwest Airlines Co., where he was legislative counsel for seven years. 

Since 2007, Chapman has served as vice president of government affairs for U.S. Airways Inc. But now, he's taken up a new vantage point of the aviation industry as counsel for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Aviation Operations, Safety and Security Subcommittee.

Chapman received his law degree from American University's Washington College of Law.