Greg Fosheim Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Gregory E. “Greg” Fosheim is an American healthcare and life sciences attorney and former public-health microbiologist, originally from Milbank, South Dakota, who is now professionally based in Chicago, Illinois. His career is unusual in combining more than a decade of legal experience with approximately a decade of earlier scientific and public-health work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He appears on Jeopardy! Season 43, where the program identifies him as a healthcare attorney originally from Milbank.

Fosheim is currently a partner at McGuireWoods LLP in Chicago, joining the firm’s Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in March 2026. His practice covers complex corporate, transactional and healthcare regulatory matters. His clients include hospitals, health systems, physician-practice management companies, clinical laboratories, diagnostic-test developers and other organizations operating across healthcare and the life-sciences sector.

A particularly significant part of Fosheim’s legal practice involves clinical and diagnostic laboratories. Drawing directly upon his scientific background, he advises on laboratory regulation and operations, including licensing, accreditation, regulatory compliance, anatomic pathology, molecular testing, fertility laboratories and diagnostic testing. His broader practice includes healthcare transactions and finance, digital health and technology, FDA and life-sciences regulation, data privacy and cybersecurity, healthcare policy, emergency preparedness and innovative healthcare delivery.

Fosheim is also a frequent writer and speaker on healthcare law and regulation. His 2026 work has addressed subjects including FDA inspections of clinical laboratories, molecular-testing expansion in pathology, fertility-laboratory compliance, clinical research, laboratory-director qualifications, Medicare laboratory pricing, medical-equipment accessibility and healthcare nondiscrimination. His combination of scientific and legal training allows him to approach these subjects from both operational and regulatory perspectives.

Before joining McGuireWoods, Fosheim spent approximately seven years with McDermott Will & Emery/McDermott Will & Schulte, ultimately becoming a partner in its healthcare practice. Earlier in his legal career, he practiced with BakerHostetler, where his published work included healthcare-law analysis. He has been practicing law since 2014 and was admitted in Illinois in 2017.

Before becoming an attorney, Fosheim worked for approximately a decade as a microbiologist at the CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. There, he advised and trained hospital and public-health laboratories in areas including infection control, quality assurance, quality-management systems, clinical testing standards and compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). He was involved in responses to national and international hospital outbreaks and served as a principal researcher and subject-matter expert in the molecular epidemiology and strain characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). His scientific expertise included helping researchers characterize bacterial isolates according to CDC clonal groups.

Fosheim’s education similarly spans science, public health and law. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Luther College in 2001, followed by a Master of Public Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in 2003. After his CDC career, he attended Georgia State University College of Law, earning his J.D. magna cum laude in 2014 and being inducted into the Order of the Coif.

During law school, Fosheim was highly involved in extracurricular legal activities. He served as Secretary and later President of the Student Health Law Association, was a member of the Moot Court Board and became its Vice President for 2013–2014. He was a semifinalist in the 2013 Georgia Intrastate Moot Court Competition, where his team received recognition for the third-best brief. His activities also included the Intellectual Property Law Society and Business Law Society.

Healthcare nondiscrimination law is another major focus of Fosheim’s work. He advises healthcare organizations concerning Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and related state nondiscrimination requirements, as well as changing federal guidance, executive actions, conscience protections and other questions concerning access to healthcare. His professional writing has also addressed legal developments affecting gender-affirming healthcare and other areas where healthcare regulation intersects with civil rights.

Fosheim has been active in professional and community organizations as well. He has served as a board member of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association since June 2025, with his volunteer work categorized around civil rights and social action.

His professional accomplishments have received substantial recognition. Fosheim has been included in The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law since 2025, following recognition in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America from 2021 through 2024. The Legal 500 US recognized him as a Rising Star in 2021 and 2022 and subsequently as a Next Generation Partner in Healthcare: Service Providers for 2024, 2025 and 2026, as well as a Recognized Individual in 2026. He was selected as an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2023 and 2024 and to Super Lawyers in 2025 and 2026.

His South Dakota roots are also documented well before his professional career. While attending school in Milbank, Fosheim competed in track and field. As an 11th grader, he represented Milbank in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles at the 1996 South Dakota state championships, finishing eighth in 43.55 seconds.

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