Bob Redding is the Washington, D.C. representative of the Automotive Service Association and the President of The Redding Firm, a legislative consulting and advocacy firm located on Capitol Hill. A native of Edison, Ga., Bob has spent his professional life in Washington, D.C. He opened his firm in 1993 after working 12 years on Capitol Hill, including six years as a Chief of Staff in the U.S. House of Representatives and six years as an Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff in the U.S. Senate. He worked with Members of Congress serving on the Senate Appropriations, Energy and Natural Resources, and Budget Committees and the House Small Business Committee. Bob has served as national and state finance chair for a number of members of the U.S. House and Senate.

Bob has spent more than 20 years as the leading legislative and regulatory advocate of the independent automotive repair industry in Washington, D.C. He has spoken on behalf of the industry to the U.S. Congress and executive branches and has spent a tremendous amount of time educating members of the association and the industry at large about issues affecting the daily lives of automotive repairers. His expertise has led to presidential appointments to Federal Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Bob is a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Ga., and the National Law Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is married to the former Laura Fallin of Moultrie, Ga., and they have three children. They reside in Alexandria, Va.