Glen A. Reed

Biography

Glen Reed is a former partner of King & Spalding, the 28^th largest law firm in the world with offices in 23 major cities. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of MAP International, an international health charity focused on improving the availability of essential medicines to international communities that lack reasonable access. Glen has served on the Dean’s Council of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University for over twenty-five years.

Glen is the Chair/CEO of his family’s private foundation, The Reed Foundation, which focuses on improving international and domestic access to healthcare resources, water and food, and on the arts and animal rescue. The Foundation has participated in funding specific projects with several organizations, including MAP International, MedShare International, CARE, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Wells Bring Hope/World Vision, The Rollins School of Public Health/Emory University, Heifer International, Conscience International, Partners for Care and Sudan Relief Fund. The Foundation has made microfinance investments with CARE Social Ventures and KIVA.org. The Foundation’s other trustees are Edith J. Reed, Adam C. Reed, and Alec B. Reed, and its donations selection committee includes Shonda R. Smith and Carly A. Drummond.

Glen also participated in several other civic and professional organizations, having served as a founding board member and a board chair of MedShare International, which provides healthcare equipment and recovered supplies to under-resourced healthcare providers internationally. He also served as a board chair of Visiting Nurse Health System and of the Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities.

Glen practiced law for over forty years, specializing in legal support for the healthcare industry in the United States. Glen was one of the founders of the Healthcare practice at King & Spalding and a national leader in the healthcare bar. Glen served on the national board and as President of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Glen represented healthcare systems, provider organizations, sellers of healthcare products and related entities. He advised clients on such matters as compliance planning and monitoring; healthcare industry restructuring; responses to investigations; new service development; antitrust compliance; the development of clinically integrated organizations; commercial managed care contracting and disputes; compliance self-assessments and remedial actions; physician compensation compliance; and the addition of existing hospitals to nonprofit health systems.

Glen has been consistently recognized by international, national and local industry publications. These include Super Lawyers: Georgia, Georgia Trend Magazine: Legal Elite, The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Legal Media Group's Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

The Healthcare practice at King & Spalding was ranked number one in the country by the American Health Lawyers Association in 2020 and 12 other times beginning in 2007. In 2018 the Healthcare practice was ranked as one of the two top healthcare practices nationally by Chambers USA, and won the Chambers USA Award for Excellence in healthcare. In 2018, 2019 and 2020 the Healthcare practice was named a Practice Group of the Year by Law360, and in 2019 it was ranked as one of the two top healthcare practices nationally by The Legal500.

Glen served for six years as chair of the annual AHLA seminar Fundamentals of Healthcare Law. From this experience he founded King & Spalding’s annual Health Law and Policy Forum, now in its 33rd year. During the Clinton administration, he served as legal counsel to Georgia Governor Zell Miller’s Commission on Healthcare Reform. He also served as Co-chair of the first two American Health Lawyers Association conferences on healthcare reform in 2010. Glen received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fulton County Daily Report in 2018. Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia, gave him an Outstanding Georgia Citizen Award in 2023. The Georgia House of Representatives passed a resolution commending Glen for his career and civic contributions in 2023.