Staff

Shawn Lepard is the Senior Partner of Lepard Consulting, LLC. Mr. Lepard has over thirty-years of experience in government as a lobbyist, legislative staffer, agency employee, campaign coordinator and family involvement in politics.

As the nephew of a former Texas State Representative, Mr. Lepard learned the ins and outs of the legislature while helping his uncle’s staff and serving as a page in the Texas Legislature. After graduating from Texas Tech University with a degree in Agriculture Communications, he joined the staff of then Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry. There he gained first hand experience of how state agencies operate. He helped Commissioner Perry revise outdated agency rules, design and implement an agency strategic plan and promote the agencies’ issues to the Texas Legislature and the public.

He then went to work in elections across Texas where he learned the art of grassroots organization and promotion of a candidate and issues. Following the campaign season he got a job with Texas Senator Teel Bivins of Amarillo. While working for Senator Bivins he learned in the trenches how to get a bill through the legislature and how lobbyists were, and weren’t, effective in representing their clients’ interests.

Once the session was finished Mr. Lepard was hired to head the Austin office of a public relations firm to help represent the clients’ interests in the halls of the Texas State Capitol, state agencies and the media. Shawn was soon requested to go to Oklahoma to help a client with their issues before the Oklahoma Legislature.

After one session in Oklahoma, Shawn moved there full-time to work for a new grassroots public policy organization to promote and protect agriculture interests. He helped establish the organization as a force in Oklahoma politics and remained as the organization’s director for six years.

Mr. Lepard formed Lepard Consulting, LLC in 2005 to help a more diverse group of client interests while still specializing in agriculture, water and environmental regulations. With Lepard Consulting, Shawn looks forward to providing his years of public policy knowledge to help businesses grow while protecting the precious natural resources they depend upon.