M. Kathleen Kenyon, Esquire

After 8 years as general counsel of Deaconess Billings Clinic (DBC) in Billings, Montana, in August 2005 Kathy Kenyon established her own law firm, Kenyon Law Firm, concentrating on the legal and compliance issues of medical groups and hospitals. During Ms. Kenyon’s tenure, DBC (which recently changed its name to Billings Clinic) was the largest health care organization in Montana, composed of a 200 physician group practice with ten clinic sites in two states, a hospital, nursing home, telemedicine program, and regional services program.

Prior to moving to Montana, Ms. Kenyon practiced in Washington, DC. She was Director of Legal Affairs for the American Medical Group Association, working on the legal issues affecting large physician group practices across the United States. Ms. Kenyon also worked as a health antitrust and federal regulatory attorney at Epstein Becker and Green and, later, at Davis Wright Tremaine. She was an attorney at the FTC’s Health Care Division for four years, and served as a FTC representative on the working group that drafted President Clinton’s Health Care Security Act. In 1994, she served as the health legislative assistant to Senator Bill Bradley, working with the Senate Finance Committee.

She has written and spoken widely on a range of legal topics in health care, including antitrust, corporate compliance, issues affecting tax exempt health care organizations, public policy issues, and managing the legal needs of health care organizations. She is CHC certified. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Montana American Civil Liberties Union.

Ms. Kenyon has a law degree from Duke University and a master’s degree in sociology from Rutgers University.