Clinical Associate Professor of Law
E-mail: kgnoonan@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-2441
Office: Room 6104, Law School
Teaching Areas:
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Health Law
State and Local Government
Recently Taught Courses
854 Clinical Program: Government & Legislative Clinic
935 Health Law and Administration (Intro to Health Law)
Biography
Kathleen Noonan has worked extensively at the intersection of health and welfare law and policy, especially as it relates to children. She currently serves as mediator in several class action public impact cases concerning health and human services. She has worked with dozens of state and local government agencies to help them restructure their policies and systems, often as a result of crisis.
Before coming to UW, Noonan was a founding Co-Director of PolicyLab, a cross-disciplinary research and policy center focused on children's health at the Research Institute of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She was also Adjunct Faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and taught in the Masters of Public Health Program. Before that, she was a Senior Associate with Casey Strategic Consulting, the consulting arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. While at Casey, she led engagements around the country aimed at producing positive public system change.
Noonan began her legal career as a law clerk to United States District Judge Morris E. Lasker (S.D.N.Y) and then practiced at the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow. Before law school, she worked in public policy positions in New York City with the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc., and Bank Street College of Education, Division of Social Policy. Noonan co-authored with Charles Sabel and William Simon, Legal Accountability in the Service-Based Welfare State (Law and Social Inquiry, 2009) which received an honorable mention by the Law and Society Association in 2010. She earned her B.S. in psychology from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.
She teaches Health Law, co-directs the JD-MPH Program and has also launched a new Government and Legislative Clinic.
