Hayley Penan

Deputy Attorney General, California Attorney General’s Office

Hayley has dedicated her career to health law and public service. After graduating cum laude from the University of California, Irvine School of Law, she attended the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health for a Master's in Public Health Policy. During her Master's program, she was a Health Policy Fellow at the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Minority Staff Office where she worked on fighting against efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

After her Master's program, she worked as an Attorney at the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) where she advised state agencies, legislative staff, and other organizations to ensure that law and policy changes were effective and did not have unforeseen consequences and contributed to litigation strategy for enforcing existing health care laws. Hayley then worked as a Deputy Legislative Counsel with the Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) for the State of California, a nonpartisan office that drafts bills and advises members of the Legislature on constitutional and statutory construction issues that arise in their legislative proposals. Hayley focused on health care issues, leading the public health deputy working group at OLC. Hayley currently is a Deputy Attorney General with the Healthcare Rights and Access Section of the California Attorney General's Office where she focuses on reproductive health and health privacy issues.