James A. Guest

James Alfred (Jim) Guest (born December 25, 1940) is an American lawyer, consumer advocate, and politician. From 2001 to 2014, Guest was the president and chief executive officer of Consumer Reports, a position he was appointed to after serving as Chairman of the Board of the Consumers Union from 1976 to 1994, with 21 of those 22 years as chair.

Guest, a Democrat, unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1982 and the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988.

James Alfred (Jim) Guest was born on December 25, 1940, in Montclair, New Jersey. He graduated from Amherst College in 1962. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Economics at MIT and graduated from Harvard Law School.

Guest served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

In the early 1970s, Guest moved to Vermont, where he served as state Commissioner of Banking and Insurance for three years before becoming Secretary of State of Vermont in January 1977, and later becoming state Secretary of Commerce.

Guest was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1982. He unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1988 election for the Vermont seat. Guest was part of a four-way primary race for the Democratic nomination, against State Representative Paul N. Poirier of Barre, state Senate President Peter Welch of Windsor County, and political newcomer Dolores Sandoval, a University of Vermont professor. Guest came in third place with 25% of the vote, behind winner Poirier and runner-up Welch.

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