Practice Areas

Andrea Cianchette Maker

Partner

Andrea provides governmental relations services in Maine and in Washington, DC with Maine's Congressional delegation. Her practice includes lobbying, government contracts and strategic positioning for reputation and marketing purposes. Her substantive policy areas of focus include economic development, workforce development and health care. Andrea is adept at building coalitions and developing effective stakeholder relations, as well as helping clients create personal relationships with key policy and decision makers. Andrea's sensible, proactive and direct approach is refreshing and empowering in the complex and sometimes perplexing public policy arena. She operates in a manner that enhances the credibility and reputation of her clients. Committed to creating a strong and vibrant State of Maine, Andrea enjoys working with clients to strengthen Maine's economy.

A native of Maine who has spent her entire professional career in Maine, Andrea has developed strong and personal relationships with countless policy makers, business people and association leaders. She has been active on many non-profit boards, raised four children and mentored numerous others.

Fresh out of law school, Andrea was trained as a litigator at Pierce Atwood, although during legislative sessions she was drawn to the political arena to represent clients in Augusta. After a few years, she left Pierce Atwood and pursued her own lobbying consulting business, representing numerous clients.

Her major client, the former Champion International Paper Company, then hired her in-house where she spent over 10 years employing the full array of public affairs tools including internal communications and media, community and government relations. In the mid-90s, she was a leader in the statewide forestry referenda campaigns. She has also served as a volunteer in several legislative races.

From 2004 to early 2011, Andrea was a Vice President for a not-for-profit, Maine healthcare company, leading its re-branding, communication, and legislative relations and policy activities. Andrea is delighted to have come full circle and returned to Pierce Atwood as a partner in the Governmental Relations practice. She appreciates being able to engage legal experts on any legislative matter, knowing that together she and they can provide the highest quality governmental relations services.

Andrea is also a Certified Healthcare Insurance Executive and has a Certificate of Professional Achievement from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Recent Experience

Lobbied the Maine Congressional delegation on portions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Re-branded a multi-state healthcare organization
Lobbied to restore full funding to the Maine Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement program