Susan Jenkins
Legal Counsel
The Big Push for Midwives
The Big Push for Midwives
Expertise in health care law with emphasis on legal issues affecting professional midwives and birth centers
Susan M. Jenkins, is a partner in The Sanchez Law Firm, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. She has practiced in the areas of health care law and administrative law for more than 25 years, and serves as Legal Counsel for the Big Push for Midwives Campaign.
She worked for several years as a staff attorney with the Federal Trade Commission, a national antitrust enforcement agency. She has also served as General Counsel of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the national professional association of certified nurse-midwives. Susan returned to private law practice in 1995, with a particular emphasis on legal issues affecting certified nurse-midwives, licensed midwives, and birth centers, including such issues as insurance law, professional regulation, licensure, certification and accreditation, clinical privileges, practice-related contract and business issues, and birth center operation. She also serves as a consultant to other attorneys and law firms on health law, and legislative and regulatory issues throughout the United States.
Susan has published several articles, including "The Myth of Vicarious Liability: Impact on Barriers to CNM Practice," Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, Vol. 39, No. 2 (March–April 1994). She was the primary author of Nurse-Midwifery Today: A Handbook of State Legislation (1995 edition, published by ACNM).
Susan is a member of the advisory board of the District of Columbia Developing Families Center, a large freestanding birth center in the D.C. inner-city, and a former member of the Council on Standards of the National Association of Childbearing Centers. She has lectured extensively on legal issues that affect midwives, birth centers, and other health professionals and providers. She has served as a guest lecturer at Georgetown University School of Nursing (Nurse-Midwifery Graduate program), Catholic University of America (Nurse Practitioner Graduate program), the University of New Mexico (Nurse-Midwifery Graduate program), and the International School of Midwifery.
Susan was graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College of the City University of New York, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received her J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1977. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Susan M. Jenkins, is a partner in The Sanchez Law Firm, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. She has practiced in the areas of health care law and administrative law for more than 25 years, and serves as Legal Counsel for the Big Push for Midwives Campaign.
She worked for several years as a staff attorney with the Federal Trade Commission, a national antitrust enforcement agency. She has also served as General Counsel of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the national professional association of certified nurse-midwives. Susan returned to private law practice in 1995, with a particular emphasis on legal issues affecting certified nurse-midwives, licensed midwives, and birth centers, including such issues as insurance law, professional regulation, licensure, certification and accreditation, clinical privileges, practice-related contract and business issues, and birth center operation. She also serves as a consultant to other attorneys and law firms on health law, and legislative and regulatory issues throughout the United States.
Susan has published several articles, including "The Myth of Vicarious Liability: Impact on Barriers to CNM Practice," Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, Vol. 39, No. 2 (March–April 1994). She was the primary author of Nurse-Midwifery Today: A Handbook of State Legislation (1995 edition, published by ACNM).
Susan is a member of the advisory board of the District of Columbia Developing Families Center, a large freestanding birth center in the D.C. inner-city, and a former member of the Council on Standards of the National Association of Childbearing Centers. She has lectured extensively on legal issues that affect midwives, birth centers, and other health professionals and providers. She has served as a guest lecturer at Georgetown University School of Nursing (Nurse-Midwifery Graduate program), Catholic University of America (Nurse Practitioner Graduate program), the University of New Mexico (Nurse-Midwifery Graduate program), and the International School of Midwifery.
Susan was graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College of the City University of New York, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received her J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1977. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
