Director
Director
Doug Blanke is Director of the Tobacco Law Center and Executive Director of the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, the network of legal centers supporting the tobacco control movement in the United States. These programs support the development of smoke-free policies in Minnesota and across the country, and provide legal technical assistance to advocates and policymakers on a broad spectrum of legal issues.
Doug’s international work has included monitoring development of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control for the American Lung Association and editing the World Health Organization's handbook on tobacco control legislation. Previously, as an Assistant Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, he played a key role in the historic Minnesota litigation that resulted in the release of thirty-five million pages of secret tobacco industry documents. He was the 2004 recipient of the American Lung Association's C. Everett Koop "Unsung Hero" Award for his contributions to tobacco control.
B.A, Michigan State University
J.D., Yale Law School
