Mary Sue Henifin, JD, MPH, is an attorney with expertise in environmental and public health law. She is a shareholder in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a law firm with offices throughout the country, including Newark and Princeton. She has served as adjunct faculty member of the UMNDJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Environmental and Community Medicine. She developed the Public Health Law course for the school, for which she received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award.

Henifin’s legal practice focuses on litigation and environmental law, and she represents clients in a wide range of regulatory matters including environmental permitting and compliance with federal, state and local regulations. She is also a member and former chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Federal District Court of the District of New Jersey. She previously served as a deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey.

She has written extensively on public health and is co-author of the New Jersey Brownfields Law and chapters on toxicology and medical testimony in the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, a standard work on how to present scientific evidence in court.

A graduate, with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law, Henifin graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and she holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University.

Ms. Henifin was appointed to the Board in November 2007. Her term will expire in 2012.