• GoDaddy.com, the Internet’s leading registrar of domain names, has hired Martha Johnston, a former aide to Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), to serve as its first director of government relations. Johnson is also a former director of legislative affairs for the Federal Communications Commission.
• Kent Shigetomi is the newest director of international trade at Tew Cardenas, representing international corporations on trade-policy issues. Shigetomi comes from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where he was director of Mexico and North American Free Trade Agreement affairs and is an eight-year veteran of the State Department’s foreign-service program.
• Sean Donohue, longtime health-policy adviser to Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), is moving off the Hill to become director of federal health affairs at Eli Lilly and Co. Donohue previously worked on health policy at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the National Institutes of Health.
• The Financial Services Roundtable recently named Margaret Moore chief regulatory counsel and research director, snagging the investor-protection and capital-markets lawyer from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where she worked for 13 years. Moore previously served in the Education Department’s Office of General Counsel and at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
• After more than a decade heading the governmental-affairs shop for insurance company Mutual of Omaha, William Mattox is moving on to a first-vice-president-in-charge position at New York Life’s capital office. Mattox has been a financial-services lobbyist since the 1970s, initially as federal-relations director for The Equitable.
• Maria Robles Meier, executive director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for the past three years, is departing to join the Los Angeles office of strategy giant Dewey Square Group. Meier, who will help the firm strengthen its national emerging-markets division, previously served as director of outreach for recently appointed Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), then vice chairman of the House Democrats.
• Andy Cebula, longtime chief lobbyist for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), has been awarded the newly created title of executive vice president for government affairs. Cebula has been at the AOPA since 2001 and previously served as government-affairs director for the National Air Transportation Association.