Patty Kaeding

Biography

Patty Kaeding (’89) has focused her legal career on health and regulatory law matters. At UW–Madison, Patty received her B.A. Honors degree in History and Political Science. After completing her J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School in 1992, she started as a federal government attorney by joining the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. She served for over ten years in the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s Office of Chief Counsel in metro Washington, D.C., where her work included a wide range of litigation, policy, and legislative matters. In 2004, she returned to Madison to work at a Wisconsin-based law firm. For fourteen years, from 2006 to 2020, she was Chief Regulatory Counsel at GE Healthcare, a $18 billion unit of General Electric Company, focusing on healthcare product regulatory compliance and strategy globally. Based in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, she now is a consultant for those seeking assistance on FDA and related regulatory matters.