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David G. Mengebier is senior vice president of governmental and public affairs and chief compliance officer for CMS Energy and its subsidiaries. Mengebier is responsible for managing all of CMS Energy’s corporate and community-based government relations public affairs and economic development
activities. He also is president of the CMS Energy and Consumers Energy charitable foundations.From 1999 to 2001 he was vice president of governmental and international affairs. Before that he was executive director of federal governmental affairs from 1995 to 1999. From 1991 to 1995 he was director of federal governmental
affairs. Before joining CMS Energy he worked as legislative counsel for Handgun Control Inc. led by James and Sarah Brady since 1989. From 1986 to 1989 Mengebier served as associate staff on the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives and as legislative director to U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell R-Mich. He worked as a legislative analyst for the U.S. House of Representatives Republican Conference in Washington from 1985 to 1986.Mengebier earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University in 1981 and a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing Mich. in 1984. He earned a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Michigan in 2006.He serves on the boards of directors of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation the Business Council for International Understanding the Michigan State Chamber of Commerce the Michigan Economic Development Foundation the Enterprise Group of Jackson and Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County. He is a member of the Washington D.C. Bar Association. A native of Petoskey Mich. Mengebier and his wife Molly are the parents of three daughters and live in Ann Arbor Mich. | 