Kent Richard Markus (born February 1, 1959) is an American lawyer and experienced federal and state government senior manager and non-profit leader.
He currently works as "bar counsel" and general counsel for the Columbus Bar Association.
Before working at the CBA, he served as a Senior Advisor in the Director's Office and Director of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Prior to joining the start-up Consumer Bureau, Markus served as Counselor and Chief Legal Counsel to Ohio's Governor [Ted Strickland] and a law professor and director of a child and family research and advocacy center at Capital University Law School.
During the administration of President Clinton he was a senior official at the U.S.
Department of Justice and before that had served as Chief of Staff and 1st Asst.
AG in the Ohio Attorney General's office.
Markus was also a federal judicial nominee to the U.S.