*Missy primarily serves as the Senior Director of Employee and Labor Relations in Human Resources at the University of Oregon, but maintains a limited appointment as an Associate General Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel that enables her to provide legal advice on behalf of the instiution regarding employment and labor issues that arise during the course of performing her duties as Senior Director of Employee and Labor Relations.
 

Missy joined the general counsel’s office in July 2014. She came to the University of Oregon from Hershner Hunter LLP, where her practice focused on business litigation, higher education and government law, labor and employment, construction, real property, and contract law. Prior to working at Hershner Hunter, Missy worked in Nike’s Government Relations Office in Washington, D.C., in US Senator Ron Wyden’s office in Washington, D.C., and in the Oregon Department of Justice’s civil trial division. She has a BA in government relations from George Mason University and a JD from the University of Oregon, where she was Order of the Coif, the Orlando Hollis Scholar for Academic Excellence, and the articles editor for the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Assistant:
Mollie Peterson
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