WCET's 28th Annual Meeting
 


Title
State Regulatory Services Advisor
Company
Cooley, LLP
Bio
Jeannie Yockey-Fine works with attorneys and other professionals in Cooley, LLP's, Higher Education Practice to provide client institutions and organizations with expert assistance and guidance related to state authorization and regulation of higher education institutions, state institutional license application review, as well as state-level professional licensure. Yockey-Fine was associated with Dow Lohnes, which merged with Cooley in 2014. Before joining Dow Lohnes, she served as licensure manager and educational policy analyst at the Florida Department of Education's Commission for Independent Education, reporting directly to the executive director. In that role she was responsible for overseeing compliance with Florida rules governing private postsecondary institutions as well as monitoring trends affecting postsecondary education in states around the country.