Ms. Kempf has been with DCHBX since 2013 and prior to the Deputy Executive Director role, she served as the General Counsel and Chief Policy Advisor, and Deputy General Counsel. Having been with DCHBX since its early years, she filled various policy, management, and operational roles including establishing the inaugural Assister program and broker advisory committee, staffing numerous DCHBX policy working groups, and managing development and implementation of policy. From 2003 to 2013, Ms. Kempf served as senior counsel for health policy in the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. Her primary responsibilities were protecting and improving federal regulation of private health insurance, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, health information technology, and privacy through legislation and oversight for Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and previously Congressman John Dingell (D-MI). In that role she helped negotiate and draft the health reform provisions in the Affordable Care Act including the statutory authority and responsibilities for health benefit exchanges.

Ms. Kempf also negotiated and ushered through the House of Representatives groundbreaking health information technology and privacy legislation, as well as the expansion and reauthorization of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Prior to her work on Capitol Hill, Ms. Kempf was an associate in the health practice group at Hogan & Hartson, LLP, currently Hogan Lovells, and a healthcare consultant at Anderson Consulting, currently Accenture. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.