Chad Thompson

With nineteen years of political experience, working for the nation’s top political strategists and consulting firms, Chad Thompson has proven he can design and implement winning grassroots political strategies. For the last ten years, he was a Senior Project Manager at a national management consulting firm, specializing in helping client’s navigate difficult land use decisions.

Thompson’s experience has been managing local zoning and grassroots political campaigns for Fortune 500 companies across a diverse set of industries. Thompson has successfully managed multiple corporate marketing and land use campaigns in 33 states and over 200 local jurisdictions. He is recognized as a national expert in land use politics.

Prior to that, Thompson worked for over a decade managing 25 local, state and national political campaigns. Following graduation from college, at the age of 21, he began his political career as the Democratic Nominee for the Tennessee House of Representatives. He was narrowly defeated in a hotly contested race that saw him lose the election by a mere 600 votes out of 15,000 cast.

He went on to serve as Press Secretary for Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Special Assistant to James Carville, former senior political advisor to President Bill Clinton. There he helped with the management of several international political campaigns in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Israel.

Thompson served as the chief political strategist for the Tennessee Senate Democratic Caucus and helped maintain their majority in three different election cycles. He ended his service to the senate caucus by securing a victory in an open-seat, special election. He also was the lead architect of the 2002 Tennessee Senate Democratic redistricting plan, which netted one new seat for the senate democratic caucus.

Thompson is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Scienc