Professional and
Lasting Results.

Our years of experience working with the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of Rhode Island’s government, as well as municipalities and state agencies, on many industry fronts have given us a diverse and advanced knowledge base to support clients across sectors.

We have experience working with non-profits, national and local trade associations, private companies, and other businesses in industries including, but not limited to:

• Public Utility
• Social Services
• Tourism
• Renewable Energy
• Medical Marijuana

Joan Panichas Milas, Principal

The founder of JPM & Associates, Joan has extensive knowledge in government relations and lobbying supporting clients in a range of industries including health care, education and non-profit agencies. With more than 25 years of experience as an effective lobbyist, Joan uses her decades of experience and trusted relationships to help her clients navigate politics on both the state and federal levels.

Over the course of her career, Joan has contracted her services to some of the most respected law firms in Rhode Island. She represents the Town of Lincoln as Commissioner of the Narragansett Bay Commission, serves as the Treasurer of the Rhode Island Lobbyist Association, is a member of the Northern RI of Commerce, and is a former planning board member of St. Mary Academy Bay View. Joan is a longtime volunteer and supporter of the Gloria Gemma Foundation and is a Samaritans of Rhode Island volunteer and active in Project GOAL.

Joan is a graduate of Providence College and attended Suffolk University Law School.

Linda Butera Noble

Linda Butera Noble has dedicated her career to public education. Her experience includes teaching in an urban ring school system and pioneering new programs integrating special needs students into the general education classrooms. Ms. Noble taught English to students of various abilities. Ms. Noble then became a special education administrator focusing on transforming a sheltered workshop program for intellectually and developmentally delayed students to a program which enables these students to experience trial work in community settings.

Ms. Noble was active in both her professional and home community. She was a member and chairperson of the budget board for the Town of Lincoln. She also served on the board of directors of the historical home, Hearthside, which is the pride of the town. Currently she is a committeeperson on the Democratic State Committee.

American Chemistry Council

Numerous pieces of legislation have been proposed that would adversely affect the plastics industry, including all-out bans on plastic bottles and bags, product stewardship (end of life product recycling, making the manufacturer responsible), BPH bans on plastics, and more. These national issues, brought to the state level in Rhode Island, we were instrumental in halting these initiatives to protect our client’s work.  

Highroad School

JPM & Associates has been providing consulting services to Highroad School, the country’s largest provider of special education services. Since our firm began working with Highroad to provide consultation, the school has significantly grown its enrollment in Providence (from approximately 12 to 125 students), and opened a new and growing Woonsocket school location in 2016.

Spurwink RI

Although major cuts have been made to programs that support the developmentally disabled populations in Rhode Island, JPM & Associates worked with the General Assembly to halt further budget cuts in the 2014 budget, and even restore some funding.