Justin R. Clark

Justin R. "JC" Clark (born June 3, 1975) is an American lawyer, a Deputy Assistant to President Donald J. Trump and currently serves as the White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. He is a former partner at the law firm Davis, Clark & Bonafonte LLC where he provided general counsel, compliance and special litigation and recount services to political campaigns and candidates nationwide.

Clark grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut and is a graduate of Conard High School and Wesleyan University. He received his JD from the University Connecticut School of Law in 2004. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Peter T. Zarella of the Connecticut Supreme Court and was appointed by Governor M. Jodi Rell to serve on the Judicial Review Council from 2009-2013.

Clark has served various state and national campaigns. He served as General Counsel to the Republican Party of Connecticut and managed Tom Foley's gubernatorial races in 2010 and 2014. He was also political director for Linda McMahon's 2012 United States Senate campaign. In 2015, he served as General Counsel to Matt Bevin's gubernatorial campaign in Kentucky where, among other things, he successfully developed and executed the plan to preserve an 83-vote margin in a recanvas of votes in the May primary.

Prior to joining the Donald Trump campaign, Clark served as Director of Operations for Chris Christie for President where, working with other senior staff, he helped develop and manage the budget, helped develop and implement a fifty state ballot access program and managed the travel and advance staff.

Clark was hired by Donald Trump's presidential campaign in March 2016 as the campaign's Connecticut state director and later served as an advisor to the campaign during the Indiana primary in May 2016. In June 2016, he was named Deputy National Political Director of the campaign and served in that capacity through the end of the election. In that role he developed and implemented a 50-state political and field strategy and during the 2016 Republican National Convention served as one of the chief whips for the campaign on the rules committee and on the floor. He later served as the chief whip for the campaign in the electoral college. After the election Clark served on the Presidential transition team.

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