R. Mark Faulkner, Penn State Health’s general counsel, has announced plans to retire. His decision brings to a close a legal career that began in 1972, and included providing legal services to Penn State, the Milton S Hershey Medical Center and what evolved during his tenure into Penn State Health.
A graduate of Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania, and Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Faulkner began providing legal services to Penn State in 1976. In 1980, he began his work for Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, which continued when he became associate general counsel of the University on May 1, 2010.
Faulkner is a member of several professional legal organizations, including the American Health Lawyers Association, the National Association of College and University Attorneys and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
From 1973 to 2006, he worked as bar examiner with the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners. Here he wrote and edited essay questions for the state bar examination on real estate, civil procedure, constitutional law and professional responsibility. Faulkner also taught health law as a part time instructor at Penn State in the early 1990s.
He has been a member of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, an officer and director of environmental organizations, and participated on boards and commissions of local municipalities in the State College region.
Faulkner has no immediate plans after retirement but he looks forward to fly fishing and travel with his wife, Georgia Brown Faulkner, and will remain close to their children and grandchildren in Pennsylvania and California.