LegiStorm

An aide to Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) has moved to K Street.

Naomi Villaça now works at at Venable as a law and policy aide. The firm disclosed that it brought in more than $5.7 in lobbying income in the first nine months of 2019.

Villaça spent the last couple years as Gallagher's scheduler and operations director. She's also worked for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and for the American Media Institute.

Ben Dunham, who spent four years in late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's (D-N.J.) office and has lobbied ever since, left Holland & Knight this month to start his own law firm, Dunham Law & Policy PLLC.

Dunham was serving as Lautenberg's chief counsel and deputy chief of staff when the senator died in office in 2013. 

After that, Dunham moved to McKenna Long & Aldridge (now Dentons) and then to Holland & Knight in 2016, where he was a senior policy adviser. He lobbied for organizations including Tesla Inc. and the Household and Commercial Products Association. 

Before working on Capitol Hill, Dunham spent time as an attorney at Earthjustice. 

A short-lived House chief has moved to the Alzheimer's Association.

Catherine Knowles joined the nonprofit as director of federal affairs earlier this month. The Alzheimer's Association disclosed nearly $1.7 million spent on federal lobbying in the first half of 2019.

Knowles most recently served as Rep. Kay Granger's (R-Texas) chief of staff, a position she held from August to September. Granger's office is on its fourth chief of staff in six months and currently has the highest turnover rate in Congress, according to a LegiStorm analysis.

Knowles first worked for Granger from 2005-2009 and has served as deputy chief of staff to Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.) and former Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas). She's also worked in policy for Fight Colorectal Cancer, an advocacy group.

After five years with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), an aide has left for a hunting-and-fishing-focused environmental preservation group.

Andrew Earl has joined the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as director for private lands conservation. TRCP, which promotes hunting and fishing access and advocates for federally funded conservation efforts, lobbies on clean water and wildlife conservation, among other issues.

Earl most recently served as Crapo's legislative assistant handling the senator's Department of Interior and environmental portfolios.

The Export-Import Bank has picked up a top aide to ex-Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), who resigned from Congress earlier this fall.

Ryan McCormack is now deputy chief of staff at the federal credit agency, which provides financing for U.S. exports.

McCormack had worked for Duffy since 2013, most recently as legislative director. He's also worked for CPAC and for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.