Susan Gaston

Biography

Susan S. Gaston, President and Owner of the Gaston Group, is a government relations and public affairs consultant. Susan has been involved in the political and legislative fields for most of her life and has over 20 years of governmental affairs and lobbying experience before the United States Congress, federal and state regulatory agencies, the Virginia General Assembly and local government bodies.

Gaston works with clients to develop successful legislative strategies and is experienced in running effective, successful grassroots and grasstops campaigns that focus on community influence and earned media. Her clients include multiple professional trade associations, Fortune 200 and 500 companies, and other business interests that span the fields of housing, real estate and development, land use and zoning, commercial fishing and seafood production, transportation infrastructure, ports operations and renewable energy.

Gaston serves on the Board of Directors for the Sorensen Institute for Public Policy at the University of Virginia, is on the President’s Advisory Cabinet at The College of William and Mary, is on the Williamsburg Regional Board of Directors for Middleburg Bank, and serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. She has also served as President of the Junior League of Hampton Roads, President of the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Parents’ Council, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Virginia Symphony, among others.

Education

Master of Arts, Human Resource Development, George Washington University

Bachelor of Arts, American Government and English, College of William and Mary