Lucy Hodder directs the Health and Life Sciences Law and Policy programs at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. Lucy is an experienced New Hampshire healthcare and regulatory attorney in practice for over 30 years. She founded the Health Law and Policy programs at the University of New Hampshire, Institute for Health Policy and Practice (IHPP) and at the law school. Lucy teaches and supports a variety of health and life sciences law courses, including Current Issues in Health Law and Policy and Health Law and Industry Regulation. Lucy also serves as an adjunct with the UNH Institute for IHPP and focuses her research and publications on healthcare systems reform, coverage and payment strategies in healthcare and life sciences, Medicaid policy, health data interoperability and privacy.
Lucy previously served as Legal Counsel and Senior Health Policy Advisor to New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan. For many years, Lucy practiced as a shareholder of Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C., and Chair of the firm’s Health Law Group assisting providers and businesses to navigate the changing healthcare environment. Lucy served as an Assistant Attorney General in the New Hampshire Department of Justice from 1993-1998 and began her practice in the San Francisco offices of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, LLP after clerking for Judge Martin L.C. Feldman, United States District Court, Louisiana.
Lucy was recognized as one of the Granite State’s 200 most influential business leaders in 2021 and 2022, awarded the Outstanding Service in Public Sector Law by the NH Bar Association in January 2021 and named Lawyer of the Year in 2012 for Health Care Law by her peers.
Education
- Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts, Politics
- Georgetown University Law Center, Juris Doctor
