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May Fox, a non-lawyer professional, is Director of Government Relations for LeClairRyan and is a member of the firm's Administrative Law & Government Relations team. Ms. Fox specializes in providing legislative representation of health care and other business interests before the Virginia General Assembly. Most recently, Ms. Fox has served as a member of Governor Warner’s transition staff. Prior to joining LeClairRyan in 1999, Ms. Fox served for four years as the founding Executive Director of the Virginia Association of Health Plans, a non-profit trade and lobbying association representing health maintenance organizations and other managed care companies doing business in the Commonwealth. From 1990-1994, Ms. Fox served in Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s cabinet in two capacities: first as Deputy Secretary of Administration, during which term she played a key role in converting the state employees benefits plan to managed care; and second, as Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources, in which capacity she oversaw the implementation of the managed care capitation program for Virginia’s Medicaid recipients. Ms. Fox has more than twenty years experience in health care policy and lobbying positions both in the public and private sectors. Such positions include serving as director of government relations for a Richmond law firm representing a variety of health care and business clients, as well as the Director of the Division of Planning for Virginia’s Department of Health. Ms. Fox has served on the Board of Directors for a number of Richmond area organizations, including the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce (GRCC) Leadership Metro Richmond and the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood. She currently serves on the Westminster Canterbury’s Board of Trustees, the GRCC Youth Matters Board of Directors, and a managing director of Advantus Strategies, LLC, a government relations consulting company. | 