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Senator Roy Afflerbach, Ret.

In addition to being the founder and President of Humane USA PA PAC, is the President of The Afflerbach Group, LLC. He personally selects the clients, associates, and strategic partners with whom the firm works and is the Group's principal lobbyist.

Senator Afflerbach's experience and access within government circles spans more than 40 years, during which he has earned more than fifty public service awards. After serving in the United States Air Force, he served 12 years as senior staff in the Pennsylvania Senate, two-terms as a Member of the State House of Representatives, three-terms as a State Senator, and 4 years as Mayor of the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania's third largest city.

As a member of the PA House of Representatives, Roy chaired the Select Committee on Citizens with Disabilities. In the Senate, he served as Democratic Chairman of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee, the Banking and Insurance Committee, and the Local Government Committee.

Additionally, Senator Afflerbach served as the Majority Caucus Secretary, a position in which he was tasked with recommending and achieving bi-partisan Senate confirmation for more than 600 gubernatorial nominees in fifteen months.

Senator Afflerbach also served as a member of the bi-partisan Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, the Board of Directors of the PA Public Television Network Commission, the PA Local Government Commission, the State Employees Retirement System, and the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation. Presently he is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Lehigh Valley Campus of Penn State University, the Board of Directors of Lehigh Valley College, and is a Charter Member of the Advisory Committee for the National Task Force on Community Preparedness and Response, chaired by former Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore.

Between his service as a member of the Senate and as Mayor of Allentown, Roy served as an independent consultant and lobbyist. Included among his principal clients were Pennsylvania's eight public television stations and eRAD, a cutting edge digitized radiology software company. Among his present clients is The Humane Society of the United States.

Roy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in English and a Master of Arts degree, with highest honors, in Political Science at Kutztown University. His Master's thesis, "County Home Rule" Fact or Fiction" has been utilized as a guide by both proponents and opponents of home rule charters in Pennsylvania.