Amy Hanson

Senior Managing Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division at Washington State Attorney General

Speaker

Amy N. L. Hanson serves as Senior Managing Assistant Attorney General of the Washington State Attorney General’s Antitrust Division. She leads and mentors teams in investigating matters that could restrain competition and choice for Washington and its residents. Where warranted, she and her teams take action to enforce state and federal antitrust laws by seeking to preserve and restore competition, prevent and remedy harm, and deter future similar conduct. She pursues this mission through the lens of having litigated high-profile competition and other complex cases on a national basis in private practice for more than 19 years before her public service appointment. She enjoys learning about a wide range of local, national, and global marketplaces from each matter that she analyzes for potential competitive impact. Amy has a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota. She began litigating antitrust cases through a clinical program during her second year of law school at the University of Wisconsin. She continues to relish the complex challenge of enforcing competition law to facilitate both continued innovation and the ability to choose amongst a range of safe and effective products, services, and labor more than two decades later.