Leadership

T. Michael Andrews, President

With over two decades of experience in federal law, legislative strategy, and public policy, Mike Andrews is a trusted advisor to clients navigating complex government affairs. As Co-founder and Principal of The Ragnar Group, Mike brings deep expertise in federal Indian law, congressional oversight, and bipartisan legislative strategy to serve a diverse range of clients.

Mike’s distinguished career includes serving as Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs under the leadership of Senators John Barrasso, John Hoeven, and Lisa Murkowski. In this role, he was instrumental in passing over 50 bills into law under three presidential administrations, advancing more than 140 bills through committee, and confirming key presidential nominees. His leadership extended to congressional oversight, where he directed hearings and investigations on critical issues such as education, energy, health care, law enforcement, and missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Before his tenure on Capitol Hill, Mike built a strong legal and policy foundation as a state, federal, and tribal prosecutor in Arizona. His expertise in Native American affairs and federal policy was further honed through senior executive roles at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he focused on Native American housing and border security, respectively.

Most recently, Mike served as a Senior Vice President at McGuireWoods Consulting and a Partner at McGuireWoods LLP, where he led federal public affairs efforts, advising clients in health care, agriculture, energy, economic development, and financial services.

At The Ragnar Group, Mike leverages his extensive policy experience, strategic insights, and bipartisan approach to help clients achieve results in Washington and beyond.

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Ashlee N. Titus, Vice President and Secretary

Ashlee Titus joined Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP in 2004. She maintains a nationwide practice advising individuals, businesses, candidates, political action committees (PACs), lobbyists, and trade associations on compliance with complex campaign finance and advertising, lobbying, and nonprofit tax exempt statutes and regulations. Ms. Titus also counsels clients on navigating the process of qualifying initiative, referenda and recall ballot measures at state and local levels and all aspects of such campaigns.

Ms. Titus is a leader organizing efforts to ensure integrity and proper administration of elections in California. She is an active member of the California Political Attorneys Association, Federalist Society, and Republican National Lawyers Association, and a supporter of the Center for Civic Education.

Prior to joining Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP, Ms. Titus served as a staff member in the California State Legislature and with a congressional campaign. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and her undergraduate degree with honors in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2003.

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Chris Marston, Treasurer

Chris Marston is the founder of Election CFO and Of Counsel at Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig where he focuses his practice on Political and Election law. Chris provides financial and compliance services to campaigns and party committees, political action committees, tax-exempt organizations, and corporate and trade association PACs. He founded Election CFO to provide these services in 2009 after serving as an assistant secretary of Education in the George W. Bush Administration. Chris volunteers as general counsel of the Republican Party of Virginia and chair of the Library of Virginia Foundation’s 1823 Council. He earned his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.

Chris resides in Alexandria, Virginia, where lives with his two Portuguese Water Dogs in the Taylor Run neighborhood, attends Westminster Presbyterian Church, volunteers with local Boy Scouts, and teaches basic dog obedience classes for the Mount Vernon Dog Training Club.

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Sara Frankenstein, Board Member

Sara Frankenstein has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Sara is a trial lawyer at Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore, LLP Law Firm in Rapid City, South Dakota. Sara earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Dakota and her Juris Doctor from the University of South Dakota School of Law. She served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard H. Battey, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota in 2001 and 2002.

Sara practices in the areas of election law, employment law, civil rights, trust litigation, commercial litigation, insurance defense, and governmental affairs, including county, municipal, school, and administrative law. Sara serves as city attorney and special counsel for cities and counties across South Dakota. She also advises and defends hundreds of cities and counties in litigation and prelitigation. Sara trains and advises all 64 county election administrators in the State of South Dakota through all aspects of state and federal election law and does the same for most of the towns and cities throughout the state and beyond.

Sara has twice testified before Congress on the issue of voting rights. She served as special counsel to the South Dakota House of Representatives for the impeachment of South Dakota’s former Attorney General and advises legislators on election and governmental law. She has successfully argued Voting Rights Act cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc (all 11 judges), and successfully briefed a Voting Rights Act case to the United States Supreme Court on a petition for writ of certiorari.

Sara has been selected as a Super Lawyer from 2016 through 2025 in the areas of Legislative and Governmental Affairs. Sara was appointed as one of five directors to the Center for Election Confidence national board, serving along with four nationally known election lawyers across the country.

Previously, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights appointed Sara to a four-year term on the South Dakota Advisory Committee, where she was elected Vice Chair. Sara was asked to present the committee’s report to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on behalf of the statewide committee.

Sara has twice served as a speaker at the Republican National Lawyers Association Election Law Conference. Sara presented at the 2020 Law Symposium for the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law on election law, among speakers from throughout the country. Sara frequently presents training to governmental officials regarding election and voting rights law and governmental employment law.

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Edward D. Greim, Board Member

Edward “Eddie” Greim is Partner at Graves Garrett LLC where he focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, free speech and election law, and internal investigations and whistleblower claims. He has been recognized for his successful representation of businesses and individuals in commercial litigation while also being named a “go-to” lawyer on policy and constitutional issues.

Eddie was named a Constitutional and Election Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal in 2020. His free speech and election law practice has included numerous constitutional challenges to election and campaign finance laws; representation of clients in state and federal ethics and campaign finance enforcement actions and investigations; initiative petition drafting and litigation; litigation and advice regarding First Amendment protections for petition circulation; representation of not-for-profit clients before state regulators; litigation of state and federal redistricting issues; and advice on campaign and election law compliance.

Eddie complements his trial work in complex, high-profile commercial and constitutional cases with oral advocacy and briefing in important appeals. Recognized as a Missouri Lawyers Media POWER 30 Appellate Attorney in 2021, he has argued before the Missouri and Kansas supreme courts multiple times, other state appellate courts across the country, and before the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Eddie received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 2002, where he taught on the Board of Student Advisers, received the Dean’s Award for Leadership, and served as President of the Harvard Catholic Law Students Association. He received two bachelor’s degrees, summa cum laude, in economics and political science from the University of Missouri. 

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Lisa L. Dixon, Executive Director

Lisa Dixon serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Election Confidence (formerly known as Lawyers Democracy Fund). Lisa is also a consultant for the Republican National Lawyers Association, serving as their Legal Counsel. Previously, Lisa practiced at Holtzman Vogel, where she specialized in tax-exempt organizations, campaign finance and election law, and lobbying compliance.

During law school, she interned for the Office of Chief Counsel, Procedure and Administration, at the Internal Revenue Service and at the Center for Law and Religious Freedom. Before law school, she served as the Assistant Student Division Director at The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and interned at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

Ms. Dixon earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2010, an M.A. in History from the University of Virginia in 2010, and a B.A. in History from Hillsdale College in 2005. After 18 years on the East Coast, mostly in northern Virginia, she recently returned to her native Michigan, where she lives with her husband and three sons.