Jenny Ma
Senior Counsel
Jenny joined the Center in 2017, and is an experienced litigator leading reproductive rights cases in state and federal courts. She has represented the Center’s clients in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Jenny also led the first proactive trial in federal court that struck down a comprehensive set of outdated laws restricting abortion access in a state. In addition, she works extensively on improving access to medication abortion care and aligning its distribution with current medical and scientific evidence.
Prior to joining the Center, 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, where she co-authored an amicus brief in Obergefell v. Hodges. 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.
Jenny also has a longstanding commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession, including serving on the Center’s nascent DEI Task Force, fostering equitable and transparent decision-making, and maintaining practices to support and empower internal and external voices and ideas.