Kimberly Pinter, Special to California Business Journal

Kimberly Pinter is a former Visiting Fellow at Independent Women’s Forum. She is a tax, budget, and economic policy expert with more than two and a half decades of both government and private sector experience. She most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs (Tax & Budget) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury under President Trump. She had previously worked for Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), whom she staffed on tax reform as his Legislative Counsel for Tax and Economic Policy. She also worked for Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) as tax counsel to the House Small Business Committee and Senator Craig Thomas (R-WY) as tax counsel, staffing him on the Senate Finance Committee.