Patrick G. Martin
Executive Vice President
Chicago | Washington, D.C.
About Patrick
Patrick is a national government relations and public affairs strategist based out of the firm’s Chicago and Washington D.C. offices. His practice focuses on advising highly regulated companies across a wide range of industries, and he advocates for clients before Congress, the White House, federal agencies, and state and local governments across the country.
Before joining Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies in 2018, Patrick spent seven years with the consulting arm of another Am Law 100 firm. He previously spent a decade working with former Indiana governor and U.S. Senator Evan Bayh, both as a legislative staffer in his U.S. Senate office and then as his top aide in the private sector following his retirement from the Senate in 2011. Prior to his time with Senator Bayh, he served as special assistant to the Director at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the initial implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In 2009, he was one of 100 interns chosen to work at the White House during the first summer of the Obama administration.
Patrick proudly serves as a deputy chair of the National Finance Committee for the Democratic Governors’ Association, working to elect Democratic governors across the country. He is an active member of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, participating in local clubs in both Chicago and in Washington, D.C. — counseling students and interns on how to best pursue careers in government and public policy. He serves on the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago and Rainbows for All Children, a national nonprofit organization that provides support for children navigating trauma or loss. He also works with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago as a member of their Mercy Society and government relations advisory committee.
Patrick has consistently been recognized as one of the country’s “Top Lobbyists” by both The Hill and the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics. In 2020, he was named to the annual Crain’s Chicago Business “40 under 40” list, and was also honored by his alma mater, the University of Illinois, as one of the year’s “Outstanding Young Alumni.”
Patrick is a native of the Chicago suburbs and earned his bachelor’s degree in International, Resource, and Consumer Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he was an Illinois General Assembly scholar. He resides in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with his wife and four children, and they are parishioners at Saint Petronille Catholic Church.