Bio

Kathleen Susan Hoke, J.D.

Kathleen is a Law School Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law where she also serves as Executive Director of the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy and Director of the Network for Public Health Law-Eastern Region. Through the Center and Network, Kathleen provides technical legal assistance to state and local health officials, legislators, researchers, and community organizations working to use law and policy change to improve public health. This work focuses on tobacco and alcohol regulation, injury prevention, healthy and affordable housing, maternal health and reproductive helath care access, cannabis regulation, and food safety. She is an expert on public health law governance and infrastructure.

Kathleen’s interdisciplinary work has resulted in co-authored publications across the spectrum, including in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics; Injury Prevention; Journal of Urban Health; Journal of Health Care Law and Policy; and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. She serves on the Editorial Board for the CDC’s publication, Preventing Chronic Disease. Kathleen was given the UMB President’s Award for Excellence in 2020 and in 2016 received the Jennifer Robbins Award for the Practice of Public Health Law by the American Public Health Association Law Section. She serves on the Maryland Commission on Public Health Governance and Organizational Capacities Workgroup, was appointed by the Governor for two terms to the Maryland State Council on Cancer Control and was appointed by the Comptroller to the Maryland E-Cigarette Task Force.

Kathleen graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif from the University of Maryland School of Law, completed a clerkship with the Honorable Lawrence Rodowsky of the Maryland Court of Appeals, and served with distinction as an Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant to the Attorney General of Maryland prior to joining the School of Law in 2002.