Jill Alper


Jill Alper is an American political consultant. She founded Alper Strategies & Media, a media firm, in 2016. Formerly, she served as the head of Dewey Square Group's campaign and integrated media practice.

Career

Alper has served as an electoral strategist for the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton as the Democratic National Committee Political Director and Al Gore, where she coordinated state specific media efforts, ran election day, and started the re-count effort. She was electoral strategist for John Kerry, for whom she put together the nomination plan and general election state plans.
In the 1992 cycle, she was Deputy Political Director and ran candidate recruitment and incumbent protection efforts for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee overall.
Alper got her start in politics at 15 when she met Governor Mike Dukakis of Massachusetts as a result of her lawsuit against Massachusetts Senate President William M. Bulger, who refused to hire women to serve as senate pages.
She later served as the Deputy Iowa Field Director for his presidential campaign.
She served as strategist to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan in both of her races and is a member of the Democratic National Committee.
Alper co-founded the Women's Information Network in 1989. In 1993, she received the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women. In 2010, she was named to the Aristotle Campaign Dream Team. Politico highlights Jill Alper as a "Featured Caucus Member" in their American politics blog, the Politico Caucus.

2016 Election

In the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Jill Alper served as one of Michigan's 17 superdelegates, pledging support to Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton.

Personal life

She married David Katz, former Deputy Wayne County Executive for Edward H. McNamara, who managed the campaign of then Attorney General Jennifer Granholm for governor in 2002, in 2004, at the Hay Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C. They reside in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with their son and stepson.