Mary Isenhour

Mary Isenhour
Chief of Staff to the Governor of Pennsylvania
In office July 23, 2015 (2015-07-23) – January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31)
Governor	Tom Wolf
Preceded by	Katie McGinty
Succeeded by	Mike Brunelle
Pennsylvania Secretary of Legislative Affairs
In office January 20, 2015 – July 23, 2015
Governor	Tom Wolf
Preceded by	Katie True
Succeeded by	Will Danowski
Personal details
Born	Kansas
Political party	Democratic

Mary Isenhour is an American political strategist, campaign manager, and government official. She was the Chief of Staff for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. Prior to the Wolf administration, Isenhour served executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, was state director of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, and assisted with the successful campaigns of U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. She now serves with the firm Rooney Novak Isenhour, LLC and is a member of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.

Isenhour also previously worked as executive director of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee, and started a political consulting firm with former state party chairman T.J. Rooney. In 2010, PoliticsPA called her "one of the top consultants in the state",^[1] and said, "few can move between the strategy of campaigning and its mechanics with the ease that she does".^[2]

Starting her career working on the Kansas House of Representatives staff, Isenhour eventually becoming chief of staff to House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer, and then director of the Democratic Party's Kansas Coordinated Campaign for legislative races. She worked as the national political director for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee before starting her Pennsylvania political career in 1999.