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Joseph Henchman

Vice President of Legal & State Projects; Vice President of Operations
henchman@taxfoundation.org

Joe Henchman is an attorney and policy analyst who supervises the Tax Foundation's state policy program (since 2009) and legal program (since 2007). He earned his bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in political transitions. His law degree is from George Washington University, where his "Why the Quill Physical Presence Rule Shouldn't Go the Way of Personal Jurisdiction," has been cited as a "spirited defense" of keeping tax jurisdiction based on physical presence. In 2007, he earned a certificate in International Legal Studies from Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's summer program at the University of Pacific-McGeorge School of Law.

Joe's analysis of state fiscal trends, constitutional issues, and tax law developments has been featured in court decisions and testimony at the federal and state levels and in the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Orange County Register, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, ABC News, C-SPAN, NPR, Fox, Forbes, Fortune, Governing, Barron's, Kiplinger's, Stateline, Reuters, and the Associated Press. In 2010, he was identified in State Tax Notes as among four people who "will likely dominate the field in the next 10 years."

Before joining the Tax Foundation as a law clerk in 2005, he worked in the historic 2003 California recall election as press/policy aide to gubernatorial candidate and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, engaged in policy activism in his native San Diego County, and interned with the Office of the DC Attorney General, Citizens Against Government Waste, and University of California outreach in the Central Valley. In 2008, he completed a year of non-profit management training (Koch Associate Program).

He is admitted to practice law in the state of Maryland, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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