Caleb J. Hays Email & Phone Number

Caleb J. Hays is an experienced elections attorney, serving as Chief Counsel and Principal for Section 4 Strategies, an election law firm in Alexandria, Virginia.As part of his practice, Caleb serves as Chief Policy Counsel for the Center for Election Confidence, as Special Counsel for Elections for the Republican National Lawyers Association, and as National Election Integrity Counsel for the NRCC. In the 116th-118th Congresses, Caleb was senior staff for the Committee on House Administration, a House Leadership committee with jurisdiction over federal elections and House operations and where he directed the House Republican Conference’s election policy conversation. Most recently, Caleb served as the Committee’s General Counsel & Deputy Staff Director and as Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Elections, provided counsel to the Chairman and the Committee, sat as committee Parliamentarian, and managed the legal team. Previously, Caleb was an Associate at Holtzman Vogel, where he counseled campaigns, party committees, and other groups engaged in protected political speech.In 2020, Caleb was named an “Outstanding Alumnus” by the William & Mary Election Law Society.Caleb served as Associate Counsel to the National Republican Congressional Committee in the 2018 cycle and as full-time law clerk to the Committee in the 2016 cycle, advising the national party committee, Members of the House Republican Conference, and candidates for U.S. House on matters related to election law, election day operations, and post-election legal proceedings, federal campaign finance law, House Ethics Rules, contract law, corporate law, and intellectual property regulations. Before law school, Caleb served in various capacities for former House Republican Conference Vice-Chair Lynn Jenkins, including as Political Director during her successful 2014 campaign and as a member of her official staff. Previously, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Kansas Republican Party and worked in various positions for Republican candidates for state and federal office in Kansas, offering strategic political counsel.Caleb received his J.D. from William & Mary Law School, where he was an editor of the William & Mary Business Law Review and a three-year meritorious scholarship recipient, and his M.B.A. from The University of Kansas School of Business, where the faculty awarded him the B.L. Trillich Memorial Award for his academic work. He is a member of the Bars of Kansas, Illinois (inactive), New York, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia.

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