CHRISTINE ARBO PECK is a Senate Counsel with the Louisiana Senate. She serves as the senior most attorney for the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. She provides guidance and oversight to Senate attorneys in developing, drafting, reviewing, and amending legislation. She drafts complex and controversial legislation and counsels Senators and staff in negotiation of healthcare policy matters and bill disputes. She negotiates compromise efforts and resolutions. Previously she spent sixteen years as an attorney and government relations director for the Louisiana Department of Health. She has been a presenter at the Louisiana Legislative CLE, teaches internal Senate staff drafting courses, and is often a conference co-presenter with Senator Fred H. Mills, Jr. Christine received her Juris Doctorate from the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1999, where she was a member of the Moot Court Board and a Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competitor.