Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

As Director of Strategic Operations, Charlotte Montiel Davis is responsible for promoting The Heritage Foundation's latest research and policy recommendations to targeted audiences.

Davis develops and organizes short-term initiatives to familiarize Members of Congress, congressional staff and executive branch appointees with Heritage's research and policy recommendations. She also manages "Ask Heritage," the think tank's informational partnership with talk show giants Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Davis served as deputy director of the Senate Steering Committee under Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) before joining Heritage in 2008.

In that post, she advised the chairman and committee members on drafting bills, crafting strategy on legislation and shaping the Senate agenda. For example, she created legislative and communication initiatives to prevent passage of such measures as the 2006 immigration bill, the 2005 United Nations headquarters loan and the Law of the Sea Treaty.

Davis also negotiated the costs created by proposed laws and blocked hundreds of bills, ultimately saving the taxpayers over $230 billion in discretionary and mandatory costs and sparing the private sector the burden of numerous new regulations.

Before coming to Capitol Hill, Davis worked at the White House in the Office of the Counsel to the President. She helped review hundreds of candidates for judicial, law enforcement and prosecutorial posts; edited legal memoranda for President George W. Bush before they were submitted to the staff secretary; and assisted with background checks for potential appointees.

Davis worked on and held key positions in many political campaigns over a decade, including the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.

She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and is working on her master's in government from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She and her husband, Sean, live in Alexandria, Va.