Professional Bio

Michael Ruger is vice president of local government affairs policy and operations at Comcast’s headquarters in Philadelphia. A Penn State graduate (BA in political science/BA in psychology, 1985), he earned his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. He has worked for the Federal Communications Commission, the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, and as a consultant.

Ruger lives in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, with his wife, Tracy Vogler, and their three children. Elected to the Hopewell Township Committee in 2017, he has served as mayor and deputy mayor and is currently a committee member. He chairs the Political Science Department Board of Visitors at Penn State and the board of directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Mercer County, New Jersey, and previously served as vice president of the board of directors of the Juvenile Law Center. He received a Heartland Regional Emmy Award in 2007 for a program on teen eating disorders.