Marie-Therese Connolly is an American lawyer, Coordinator at the Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, at the US Department of Justice, and Senior Trial Counsel, in the Civil Division.[1] She won a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship.[2]
She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in 1981, and from Northeastern University School of Law with a J.D. in 1984. She helped draft the Elder Justice Act.[3][4]
She is Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[5] She is a Director of Life Long Justice at the Appleseed Foundation.