In the award winning book Coyote Warrior, investigative journalist and author Paul VanDevelder writes that Lee Foley is "the best in the city."

For more than 30 years, Lee Foley has worked as one of Washington's foremost counselors on policy and legislative advocacy. Lee advises clients and represents various interests before the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch on issues involving: elementary, secondary and post-secondary education, employment and training, employment security and job creation, housing, community and economic development, and asset building, financial services, small business development, programs for older Americans, rural and agricultural programs, disability and civil rights policy and appropriate technology applications.

Lee has extensive business experience in banking and financial services as a founder and member the boards of directors of financial institutions serving five major U.S. metropolitan areas. He has also served for more than 12 years on a local K-12 school board and its executive committee.

Prior to his lobbying career, Lee served in a variety of positions in Washington including as a White House domestic policy advisor, Chief of Staff of the predecessor agency to the Office of Community Services at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate’s Labor and Public Welfare Committee (now called the HELP Committee) and the Senate Finance Committee. Lee is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin.