Jenny Ma recently served in the Biden-Harris Administration as the Principal Deputy Director at the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In her role, she oversaw the implementation and enforcement of civil rights and privacy laws as they intersected with healthcare policy and strategic initiatives.
Jenny was previously a Senior Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she led complex, high-stakes reproductive rights cases in state and federal courts, including as counsel in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization before the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to these 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.
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. For her professional excellence in the legal field and demonstrated leadership and advancement of women, Jenny recently received the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Women’s Leadership Award.