Employer
Home: Newsroom: News Releases: News Release

Tretheway named one of the top 100 Minnesota Women 'Super Lawyers'

January 7, 2009

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - HealthPartners is pleased to announce that Barb Tretheway, head of the HealthPartners Law Department has been named one of the 2008 list of "Top 100 Women Super Lawyers," by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine.

Tretheway is the senior vice president and general counsel for HealthPartners. In her post, Tretheway is responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice and direction to the management and governance of HealthPartners and its affiliated entities.

Prior to joining HealthPartners, Tretheway graduated with a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1988 and practiced law at Gray, Plant, Mooty in Minneapolis. She was also named in the 2007 list of "Top 100 Women Super Lawyers".

Each year Law & Politics sends out approximately 16,000 ballots to Minnesota attorneys and asks them to rank their peers within 55 different practice areas based on case outcomes, experience, representative clients, professional honors, and community service among other factors.


About HealthPartners
Founded in 1957, the HealthPartners (www.healthpartners.com) family of healthcare companies serves more than one million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. It is the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization in the nation, providing care, coverage, research and education to improve the health of members, patients and the community. For the third year in a row, HealthPartners is rated one of the best commercial health plans in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, NCQA's "America's Best Health Plans 2007".

Contact: 952-883-5305
Pager: 612-629-0411