Clay Hollis, 34

Clay Hollis came by his profession in politics naturally.

Growing up, his father, Clayton Hollis, worked in government relations and corporate communications. That meant that the topic of conversation at family dinners often centered around his work.

The junior Hollis remembers that it was during those conversations where he learned how people in, and around, elected office work to help constituents solve problems and try to best represent their constituencies, all while balancing different, and often competing, interests.