CHS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- President
- Founding Partner of CMA Strategies
- President of Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates
Pat McFerron is the President of Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates and is nationally known for his polling and focus group work for corporations and political campaigns.
In addition to being President of CHS, McFerron is a founding partner of CMA Strategies, Oklahoma's leading political campaign consulting and lobbying firm. He is William Randolph Hearst Scholar who graduated summa cum laude from Oklahoma City University and attended graduate school at The American University.
A force in politics since 1980, Sharon Hargrave Caldwell has earned respect from both sides of the political aisle as well as the business community for her keen political and marketing insight.
Caldwell co-founded Cole Hargrave Snodgrass & Associates in 1989. Anchoring the firm, she led CHS as it was positioned to being named one of the 20 best Republican consulting firms in the country in 1994. She has been the managing partner of the firm since 1995 and helped transition the company as it narrowed its focus in 2003.
While active in establishing the firm's polling, opinion research and voter contact operations, Caldwell developed a state-of-the-art communications center as she led CHS' effort to launch its own data collection. Past experiences had proven to her that the only way to fully trust the integrity of the data is to control its collection. This continues to be a guiding principle of the firm.
Caldwell continues to be an innovator and is constantly working to keep CHS at the forefront of data collection which will best help our clients achieve their goals.
Caldwell has written extensively on campaign organization including in the respected Campaign and Elections magazine. As a sought-after instructor and speaker, she has led and participated in innumerable candidate training schools.
Caldwell was recently named to Campaigns & Elections' "Influencers 500" list as one of the Top 10 Influencers from Oklahoma.
Caldwell is a graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma. She is married to former State Representative Tony Caldwell, with whom she has two children.