Jennifer Fountain Connolly

Senior Legal Advisor

Jennifer Fountain Connolly is a Senior Legal Advisor at Democracy Forward.

Jennifer comes to Democracy Forward with over twenty-five years of experience leading some of the nation’s most significant complex litigation. Prior to her arrival, she owned her own legal consulting firm advising government clients on affirmative litigation. Before establishing her firm, she was a shareholder at Baron & Budd, PC where she represented ten states and several large municipalities in cases filed across the country in the opioid litigation. Before that she was a partner at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and managed its Washington DC office, and was a partner at Wexler Wallace LLP. At both those firms Jennifer led national complex litigation including antitrust cases, pharmaceutical and consumer class actions, and whisteblower lawsuits. 

Earlier in her career, Jennifer practiced at a Denver-based litigation boutique that is now a part of Sherman & Howard and served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Business Regulation Unit of the Colorado Attorney General’s office where she worked on national and statewide antitrust and consumer protection matters.

Jennifer holds a BA in English from the University of Chicago and a JD from the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. In September 2023 she founded Comes Now, a newsletter dedicated to supporting women in the legal profession.