Before joining Foley Hoag, she chaired the health law department at Holland & Knight LLP and was a litigation partner and pro bono coordinator at Burns & Levinson LLP. Before practicing law, she worked as an acquisitions editor for Houghton Mifflin Company, among others. Hamelburg is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations and is active in a variety of organizations, including serving as an overseer of Children’s Hospital, vice chair of the Board of Trustees at Crittenton Women’s Union, director and secretary of the Boston Club, and member of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Institute. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Boston University and her JD from Boston College Law School. Hamelburg and her husband, Gerald, have two grown children and live in Wellesley.