Ann Ravel, a former Democratic commissioner on the U.S. Federal Election Commission, has joined San Jose, California-based trial firm McManis Faulkner as of counsel.

Ravel was an Obama administration era appointment to the FEC back in 2013. During her five-year term with the commission, she has served as FEC vice chair in 2014 and chair in 2015. Ravel officially ended her term in March 2017, declaring in a resignation letter to President Donald Trump that “our political campaigns have been awash in unlimited, often dark, money.”