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Jenny Ma

  • Lecturer in Law

Jenny Ma is Senior Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she leads complex, high-stakes reproductive rights cases in state and federal courts, including in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi, where she was co-counsel in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Other examples of Jenny’s work include leading the first ever proactive trial in federal court to successfully challenge a comprehensive set of outdated laws restricting abortion access in a state. Jenny recently won the first ruling in the nation blocking the implementation of a state abortion ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe. She also works extensively on improving access to medication abortion care and aligning its distribution with current medical and scientific evidence.

Jenny is a recognized expert in her field and a frequent commentator on reproductive rights issues, appearing in major news outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, AP, Reuters, National Public Radio, the Hill, Politico, USA Today, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, BBC, and others.

Prior to her current roles, Jenny served as a law clerk to the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Robert W. Sweet of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also worked at the law firms Jones Day and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where she co-authored an amicus brief in Obergefell v. Hodges. Jenny is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar, a Ms. JD Fellow, and received the Louis Henkin Outstanding Note Award for her scholarship. She also holds an M.A. from Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a B.A. with honors from Wesleyan University.