Geoff Neill is Senior Legislative Advocate at Nielsen Merksamer, LLP, representing local agencies before the Legislature and Governor’s administration. Before joining Nielsen Merksamer, Mr. Neill was a lobbyist with the California State Association of Counties (CSAC), where he worked on a wide variety of issues including the state budget, taxes, broadband, government technology, elections, economic development, and transparency laws. He has spoken at conferences, conventions, webinars, and university classrooms around the state and in Washington, D.C., on a wide variety of issues.

Mr. Neill has twenty years of experience in and around state politics as an advocate for public agencies, working in a variety of capacities for both CSAC and the California Special Districts Association. He serves as a board member for the Special District Leadership Foundation. Mr. Neill was born and raised in California and currently lives in Sacramento with his family.