Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Ed Manning

84. Ed Manning

Ed Manning is a partner at KP Public Affairs, one of the largest lobbying firms in Sacramento, with $9.9 million in billings through the first 15 months of the legislative cycle. Manning specializes in environmental, energy, water and resources issues and the firm, where he has worked for nearly two decades, represents loads of clients where those issues are critical, including American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance, California Licensed Foresters Association, Forest Landowners of California, Granite Construction Company, Marine Mammal Center and Offshore Wind California. Before he became a full-time lobbyist, Manning was a partner in the LA law firm Benshoof (which is now part of Alston & Bird), where he – surprise, surprise – focused on environmental, resource and land-use law. Like his colleague Jonathan Ross, (No. 64) Manning helped KP transition from its old brand, Kahl Pownall.

Updated Aug. 7, 2024