Ryan Hecker Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Area

• Spearhead consolidation and streamlining of contract rules across the system to create a more transparent and ethically robust process.
• Lead effort to update and modernize Woman’s Right to Know booklet to create a more engaging, informative, and higher quality product.

Austin, Texas Area

• Created and developed crowd-sourced and grassroots 10-point plan for economic conservative reform by leading the website creation, building a coalition of over 300 national, state, and local grassroots groups in.
• Built strong grassroots support for the project, which culminated in 500,000-plus Americans participating in creating the contract, and over 300 candidates signing the document, including 90 elected Congressmen and.

Austin, Texas Area

• Spearheaded campaign for Lieutenant Governor, including overseeing day-to-day statewide activities of 20-member staff and developing and executing multi-million dollar budget.

Austin, Texas Area

• Advise Lieutenant Governor on public policy implications of upcoming legislation and current events, particularly in the education, criminal justice, and sunset policy areas.
• Strategize with state senators and other individuals and groups to achieve Lieutenant Governor’s overall legislative goals.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Oversaw budgeting, strategy, and implementation of $22 million grassroots, micro-targeting, and online GOTV campaign in support of 88 endorsed Senate and House candidates.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Oversaw resolution of all complex legal/compliance issues arising from all FreedomWorks institutions including issues relating to campaign finance law, FEC election law, Senate and House ethics rules, and IRS tax law.
• Analyzed and negotiated all contracts made by FreedomWorks to improve cost efficiency of institution.

• Drafted briefs and argued motions in defense of multi-billion dollar investment bank in breach of contract claim brought in Houston, Texas state court.
• Drafted motion to dismiss briefs in defense of multi-billion dollar energy company in ongoing anti-trust claim brought in Louisiana.
• Prepared and defended witness depositions in support of multi-billion dollar chemical company in ongoing class action alleging price-fixing.

Greater New York City Area

• Aided in analyzing and developing candidate’s positions on legal issues and edited speeches concerning legal policy.
• Created and developed extensive opposition research profiles on leading Republican candidates.

Greater New York City Area

• Drafted briefs and legal memoranda and provided other legal assistance in defense of multi-billion dollar software company in class action antitrust trial in Des Moines, Iowa.
• Wrote briefs, witness outlines, and legal memoranda in criminal defense of pro bono client.
• Wrote brief and conducted review of documents in response to SEC investigation of client investment bank following illegalities committed by bank’s client during IPO.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Ames Moot Court Finalist Journal of Law and Public Policy

Bachelor’S Degree, History, Politics, And Africana Studies, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: American Parliamentary Debate Association