Tim Goeglein is the Vice President for External Relations at Focus on the Family, based in Washington, D.C. He has served in high-level government posts for the past two decades. He served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, where he was the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 2001 to 2008. He was the President’s principal outreach contact for conservatives, think tanks, veterans groups, faith-based groups, and some of America’s leading cultural organizations. He was a member of the President’s original 2000 campaign and White House staffs, and served for nearly eight years.
From 1988 through 1998, Tim was first the deputy press secretary, and then press secretary and communications director for U.S. Senator Dan Coats of Indiana. Coats was in the Senate for a decade. After leaving the senate and before starting with the Bush campaign, Tim served as communications director for Gary Bauer at the Campaign for Working Families and in the Bauer presidential bid.
Tim was an intern for then-U.S. Senator Dan Quayle in 1985, and for then-Representative Dan Coats and for NBC News in 1986 during his college years. Tim graduated from Indiana University’s Ernie Pyle School of Journalism in 1986, where he was the Richard Gray Fellow in his senior year. He holds an honorary doctorate from Concordia University – New York.
Tim’s first job upon graduation was as a television news producer for the NBC affiliate in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. During high school and college, he produced a show for WOWO Radio, which was then owned by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Corporation. The program was heard in 28 states.
Tim serves on the Sanctity of Life Commission for his church body, the 3-million- member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Also, he has served as a deacon in his church for 20 years. He has been married to Jenny for 17 years; they have two sons Tim and Paul; and they live in the Washington metropolitan area. Tim’s hobbies include reading, tennis, swimming, biking, and the fine arts.
Tim is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, as well as a member of the board of Coalitions for America; the Sanctity of Life Commission of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; the Council for National Policy; and the Capitol Hill Club.
