Scott Stanzel

Served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush.

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Scott Stanzel Biography

 

Scott Stanzel Biography

 

Scott Stanzel has served in high profile communications roles for nearly 15 years.  As a spokesman and media adviser for a United States Senator, the President of the United States and one of the most scrutinized Fortune 50 companies, Stanzel has managed communications strategy on many of the biggest news stories in recent times.

 

Stanzel currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where he founded Stanzel Communications, a firm providing media strategy, crisis communications and interview training services to corporate clients, government leaders and political candidates.  

 

Stanzel graduated from Sac Community High School in Sac City, Iowa, in 1991.  In May 1995, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from IowaStateUniversity.  

 

Upon graduating from college, he went to work for the Dole for President campaign as the Northwest Iowa Field Representative.  Following Senator Bob Dole’s victory in the Iowa Caucuses, Stanzel was recruited to serve as the Deputy Finance Director for the Lightfoot for U.S. Senate campaign.  In January 1997, he was hired as the Assistant Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

 

In September 1999, Stanzel left the Grassley office to work for the Bush for President campaign.  After serving in communications roles in several primary states, at the campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, and on the Florida Recount Team in Tallahassee during the historic post-election recount, Stanzel was selected to be a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney Transition Team, which guided President-elect Bush’s Cabinet nominees during the Senate confirmation process. When President Bush was inaugurated in January 2001, Stanzel was asked to become a White House spokesman.  He served in the White House Office of Media Affairs, where he was the primary spokesman for President Bush for reporters serving news outlets in 14 Midwestern and Industrial Belt states.

 

 

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In August of 2003, Stanzel accepted a position with President Bush’s reelection campaign.  In his role as Press Secretary at Bush-Cheney ’04, Stanzel traveled with President Bush to campaign events throughout the country serving as national campaign spokesman to television, radio, newspaper and wire reporters covering the campaign.  After President Bush’s election victory, Stanzel became a Senior Communications Advisor to the 55 th Presidential Inaugural Committee.

 

Following President Bush’s second inauguration in 2005, Stanzel moved to the private sector to work for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, as a Senior Public Relations Manager.  In this position, he planned media relations activities and served as a spokesman for Microsoft on security issues.       

 

On November 29, 2006, President Bush’s appointment of Stanzel to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary brought his return to the White House.  In this role, Stanzel served as a spokesman for President Bush on a variety of issues, including homeland security, education, agriculture and energy.  As Deputy Press Secretary, he worked on the front lines with the most talented and aggressive reporters in the world.  Stanzel conducted numerous on camera briefings in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and at the “Western White House” in Crawford, Texas.  Stanzel regularly prepared President Bush for media interviews and developed the strategy for the lengthy series of final interviews the President conducted over the last months of his time in office.

 

Stanzel serves on the Advisory Council of the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Iowa State University Alumni Association.  He is an avid runner and triathlete.  In September 2008, he completed the 140.6 mile ultra distance Ironman Wisconsin triathlon and followed that up in 2009 by finishing Ironman Switzerland in just over 11 hours.  As an active volunteer for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Stanzel works to raise money to help find a cure and better treatments for blood cancers.  

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