It wasn’t a long vacation for Dev Davis, who termed off the San Jose City Council in December after representing District 6 for eight years. Women-driven lobbying firm Canyon Snow announced Wednesday that Davis has joined the company as its new vice president of government affairs.
“I’m really excited to be part of the Canyon Snow team,” Davis said in an interview this week. “I feel so passionately about our city and our region.”
Davis said she’s excited about the major events coming to Santa Clara County in 2026, including the Super Bowl and World Cup games, and expects to be working with Canyon Snow clients on some issues — like artificial turf fields — at least tangentially related to those events.
“I’m looking forward to bringing my knowledge and my relationships with county supervisors and others to the group so we can really bring forward good policy across the region, not just in San Jose,” Davis said.
Canyon Snow founders Leslee Guardino and Jennifer Johnson said they enjoyed working with Davis during her time on the council, with Johnson saying they appreciated that she displayed “sharp focus on others and real intelligence to back it up.”
With Davis rolling off the council, Guardino said offering her a new position with the company, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, was an easy decision.
“She shares a lot of the ethos that we have about getting good information, good data to policymakers to make the best decisions for the city,” Guardino said.
San Jose’s “revolving door” policy restricts former councilmembers from lobbying their former colleagues at City Hall for a year, but Johnson said they don’t expect that to be an issue for Davis and don’t plan to seek an exemption for her.
“We have a lot of clients outside of the city of San Jose — in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and at the county, as well as regional bodies,” Johnson said. “We do a lot that’s not San Jose-related.”