Faculty Profile: Ellen Bowden McIntyre

Ms. McIntyre has served as the Deputy Chief for Affirmative Civil Enforcement at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee in Nashville since March 2023. She supervises and litigates major affirmative civil health care fraud cases and civil rights work.  Prior to this position, she served in various roles at the Department of Justice in both Nashville and Washington, D.C. She served on a one-year detail to the Department’s Consumer Protection Branch handling the first wave of FDA vaping enforcement cases in 2022. She worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Nashville from 2003 to 2021, where she served as Affirmative Civil Enforcement Coordinator and Civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator and won the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys’ prestigious Director’s Award for successfully litigating a major Elder Justice case. Ms. McIntyre also worked for the Department’s Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, from 1999 to 2002. Prior to joining the Department, she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Ms. McIntyre is a First Year Director of the Lawyers’ Association for Women (LAW), Marion Griffin Chapter, and an Executive Committee member of the TBA’s Health Law Section. She graduated from Columbia Law School in 1994 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.