Jeff Jacobson works as a strategist, consultant and policy expert for a range of business and non-profit clients. His primary focus is on helping his clients better understand and influence state policy making in Ohio.

He served in the Ohio House and Senate from 1992 to 2008, culminating as Senate President Pro Tempore. In the Legislature, he played a major role in crafting the biennial state budget, with a concentration in school funding. During his sixteen years in public service, he enacted legislation on topics as diverse as education reform; tax policy; criminal justice; nursing home reimbursement formulas; election and campaign finance law; the abolition of predatory mortgage lending and the regulation of payday lending; collective bargaining and prevailing wage law; and electric utility re-regulation.

He graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and received his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Dayton.