Glen Reed is a former partner of King & Spalding, the 28th largest law firm in the world with offices in 22 major cities. He 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. More recently, he served as 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, arts education 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 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.
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 34th year.
Glen has been the principal financial underwriter for programs on legal and public policy topics presented by The Buckley Institute and the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale University (WFBJP). On September 13, 2022 the first program was entitled Supreme Court Roundup: Dobbs, Bruen and West Virginia. The speakers were Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, and Robert Lieder, Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, with Professor E. Donald Elliot of the Yale Law School serving as moderator.
On November 16, 2022, WEBJP presented a program entitled Firing Line Debate: The Supreme Court Needs Term Limits. The speakers were Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and Adam White, executive director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
On September 12, 2023, WEBJP presented the second annual Supreme Court program, entitled Supreme Court Review: College Admissions, Student loans, Coerced Speech, and More. The speakers were Ed Whelan, former president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Kenneth L. Marcus, board chairman of the Brandeis Center, and Anastasia Boden, Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.
On October 5, 2023, WEBJP presented a program entitled The State of K-12 Education in America. The speakers were Manny Diaz, Jr., the Education Commissioner for the State of Florida; Lindsey Burke, the Director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation; and Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focusing on K-12 education, curriculum, teaching and school choice.
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.
[Information as of December 2023]