She has been President of Linda Jenckes & Associates, a government relations consulting firm that she founded, since 1995. Prior to that time she was Senior Vice President of the Health Insurance Association of America and also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Jenckes also serves on the boards of directors of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the National Polycystic Kidney Disease Research Foundation.