WASHINGTON: Quinn Gillespie & Associates tapped John Feehery as president of the firm's communications practice – a role last held by then co-chairman Ed Gillespie before he departed the firm in 2007 to join the Bush Administration.

Feehery has worked as a consultant for The Feehery Group since 2007. Before that, he served as EVP of global government relations and global PR at the Motion Picture Association of America for two years.

As president of communications and a director in ...