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Jennifer Templeton Dunn, JD

University of California Hastings College of the Law ◊ 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

EDUCATION

University of California Hastings College of the Law, J.D., May 1998

University of California, Berkeley, B.A. in English, December 1991

University of Barcelona, Education Abroad Program, 1989-1990

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Primary author of medical-legal practice guide for physicians, administrators and their counsel.

• Obtained legal waiver under Health Workforce Pilot Project Act which authorizes demonstration and evaluation of new or expanded roles for healthcare professionals.

• Responsible for developing campus IRB policies under General Counsel and Academic Dean.

• Eight years of experience working with UCSF faculty, physicians, and administrators in the four UCSF professional schools and graduate division.

• Over three years of experience overseeing teen and prenatal programs in family planning clinic.

• Demonstrated professional and personal commitment to reproductive health, women’s health and abortion access spanning over 20 years.

• Frequent guest lecturer at legal and medical conferences and events (see Select Presentations).

• Legal expert and consultant for hospitals, clinics and physician groups.

• Experience managing conflicting perspectives among interdisciplinary teams.

• Litigated health care, insurance, and consumer actions in state and federal courts across the country.

• Represented school districts in employment, student, and construction/land use matters.

• Experience in multidistrict litigation, class actions, and mass torts.

• Licensed in California and New York.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of California Hastings College of the Law July 2013 - Present

Lecturer in Law

University of California Hastings College of the Law July 2012 – June 2013

Acting Assistant Dean for the Graduate Division

• Responsible for developing and overseeing new Graduate Division, including supervision of all staff and authority over departmental budget.

• Designated as Federalwide Assurance (FWA) Administrator for UC Hastings.

University of California Hastings College of the Law July 2010 – June 2013

Adjunct Professor

University of California Berkeley Law Fall 2009

Lecturer

UCSF/Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

University of California Hastings College of the Law July 2009-July 2012

Executive Director

• Principal Investigator and faculty supervisor for reproductive justice projects and grants.

• Supervised legal fellows and interns on legal research relating to health policy.

• Responsible for hiring and supervising legal and administrative staff.

• Responsible for overseeing state and non-state budgets and accounts.

University of California San Francisco April 2005-April 2009

Law & Policy Advisor, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, UCSF

• Responsible for Law & Policy division of ANSIRH, including development of legal fellowship and internship programs and supervision of fellows and interns.

• Provided legal support and policy analysis to Director and Principal Investigators. Research areas included HIPAA, Public Records Act, minors/adolescents, informed consent, scope of practice, clinic laws and regulations, and California’s Health Workforce Pilot Project Act.

Director, Access through Primary Care Initiative/Health Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP)

• Obtained legal waiver pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 128125–128195 and CCR §§ 92001–92702 to allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse-midwives to provide aspiration abortion as part of a statewide demonstration project.

• Worked with UCSF’s campus counsel, UCSF administrators, internal and external IRBs, and study sites throughout California to develop protocols, consent forms, and site agreements.

Miller Brown & Dannis LLP Aug. 2003 - Jan. 2005

Associate, Litigation Practice Group

• Represented K-12 public school districts in employment, student and construction matters.

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP Jan. 2000 - June 2003

Associate, New York Office, October 2001 – June 2003

Associate, San Diego Office, January 2000 – October 2001

• Associate in consumer and health care practice groups in New York and California offices.

• Prepared legal briefs and other documents; prepared for depositions, settlement negotiations, and court hearings; and supervised co-counsel and staff.

• Litigated health care, insurance, human rights, civil rights and consumer matters in state and federal courts.

• Experience in multidistrict litigation, class actions, and mass torts.

American Civil Liberties Union (Los Angeles) 1998 - 1999

Special Assistant to the Executive Director

• Conducted legal research and provided legal research support for Executive Director.

LEGAL INTERNSHIPS AND CLERKSHIPS

Honorable Maria-Elena James, United States Magistrate Spring 1998

Extern

Equal Rights Advocates, San Francisco, CA Summer 1997

Law Clerk

Professor Radhika Rao, University of California, Hastings, CA Fall 1996-Spring 1997

Research Assistant

Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY Summer 1996

Summer Intern

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League 1997-1998

Consultant, Clinic Defense Project, CARAL Education Fund, Fall 1998

Volunteer speaker, Speakers' Bureau, 1997-1998

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte 1992 - 1995

Prenatal Services Coordinator, East San Jose Clinic, 1993 – 1995

High Risk Teen Counselor, East San Jose Clinic, 1993 – 1995

Fundraising Assistant, Santa Cruz Clinic, 1992 – 1993

Cabrillo Community College, Watsonville, CA 1992-1993

Teaching Assistant, English/Writing/ESL

Barbara Boxer Campaign for United States Senate

Santa Cruz County Coordinator/Asst. to Northern Cal. Field Director 1992 Campaign

PUBLICATIONS

Jennifer Templeton Dunn & Lindsay Parham, After the Choice: Challenging California’s Physician-Only Abortion Restriction Under the State Constitution, 61 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 22 (2013).

Mary Barger, Jennifer Templeton Dunn, Sage Bearman, Megan Delain, & Elena Gates, A Survey of Access to Trial of Labor in California Hospitals in 2012, BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH 13: 83 (2013).

Jennifer Templeton Dunn, Jennifer Mraz, Erin Cassard Schultz, Eleanor Drey, Karen Meckstroth, ABORTION IN CALIFORNIA: A MEDICAL-LEGAL HANDBOOK (2012).

Jennifer Templeton Dunn, A Reflection on the Passage of Proposition 8, CALIFORNIA WOMEN LAWYERS, (Winter 2009).

Maya Manian & Jennifer Templeton Dunn, Gonzales v. Carhart: A Threat to Women’s Health and Reproductive Freedom, CALIFORNIA WOMEN LAWYERS (Summer 2007).

Jennifer Templeton Dunn & Rachel Bravo, The Reality v. the Law: Abortion Access in California, CALIFORNIA WOMEN LAWYERS (Fall 2007).

Jennifer Templeton Schirmer, Note, Physician Assistant as Abortion Provider: Lessons from New York, Montana and Vermont, 49 HASTINGS L. J. 253 (1997).

Select Presentations

Applying a Human Rights Approach to Maternal Mortality: Obstacles & Opportunities, West Coast Launch of the World Bank Report, Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity. University of California San Francisco, 2014.

Disposition of Fetal Remains under State Law, Panel on Fetal Disposal Choices and Restrictions, NAF Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2014.

Required Funeral Disposition After a Miscarriage at 20 Weeks: Patient Preference or a Mistake in Form?, Center for Healthy Communities, Los Angeles, 2013.

Post-Viability Abortion and the Health Exception, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Parnassus Campus, University of California San Francisco, 2013.

Ethics in Perinatology: A Day of Dilemmas, Discussion and Debate, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, 33rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2013.

The Social and Historical Context: Abortion in the U.S. Before Roe v Wade, Roe v Wade at 40 Symposium, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Stanford, 2013.

Forced Obstetrical Intervention: Still Happening After In Re AC?, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science Grand Rounds, Parnassus Campus, University of California San Francisco, 2012.

The Right to Refuse Treatment Does Not End With a Positive Pregnancy Test, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy, UC Hastings 2012.

Pregnancy, Capacity & Psychosis, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, San Francisco General Hospital Campus, University of California San Francisco, 2012.

What Is Reproductive Justice? Reproductive Justice Seminar Elective, University of California San Francisco, 2011.

Abortion and Mental Health: The Need for Evidence-Based Health Policy, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium Lecture Series, 2010.

Reproductive Health and the Law, Reproductive Health and Justice Seminar Elective, University of California San Francisco, 2010.

Abortion and Scope of Practice: ‘Physician-Only’ Laws in the United States, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium Lecture Series, Parnassus Campus, University of California San Francisco, 2010.

What Is Reproductive Justice? University of California San Francisco, Sponsored by Medical Students for Choice and Law Students for Choice, 2010.

Reproductive Health Seminar, Health Sciences Concentration Seminar, UC Hastings College of the Law, 2009.

Health Policy Panel, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2009.

Gender, Reproduction and the Supreme Court, Panel, California Annual State Bar Conference, 2008.

Reproductive Rights Panel, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2008.

Abortion Access in the Wake of Gonzales: A Pro-Choice Mixer, Sponsored by California Women Lawyers, NARAL Pro-Choice California and Queens Bench, 2008.

Legal Implications of Gonzales v. Carhart, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA (2007).

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, ANSIRH, UCSF, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, 2006.

Advanced Practice Clinicians as Abortion Providers, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, 2006.

Women’s Reproductive Health, Politics & the Law, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, 1998.

Women’s Reproductive Health, Politics & the Law, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1997.

BOARDS AND ELECTED POSITIONS

Friends of Harvey Milk 2010 – 2011

Board Member

California Democratic Party Elected January 1993

Delegate

• Two-year term representing the 27th Assembly District

BAR ADMISSIONS

California Bar Member

New York Bar Member

Admitted in the following federal district courts: Northern District of California, Southern District of California, Central District of California, Eastern District of California

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

California Women Lawyers Association January 2007-2009

Legislative Committee and Health Care Committee

San Diego Women Lawyers Association 1999-2003

Member

National Organization for Women 1988-1998

Legislative Committee, San Francisco Chapter, 1995-1996.

Member/Volunteer, 1988–1998 (East Bay, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and San Francisco)

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGES

University of Barcelona, Spain 1989-1990

Exchange Student, Barcelona, Spain

Education Abroad Program 1986

Exchange Student, Goslar, Germany

Mexico-United States Exchange Program 1982

Exchange Student, Guadalajara, Mexico

Bilingual Spanish/English

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