Ms. Hodge is senior counsel to the firm and practices in the Public Finance and Economic Development and Tax Law Practice Groups. In the public finance area, her practice focuses on bond financing transactions for state and local government agencies, primarily in the areas of higher education, health care, tax-exempt organizations, and industrial development projects. Ms. Hodge has experience in governmental and exempt facility bonds, including general governmental facilities, 501(c)(3) bonds, arbitrage, and post-issuance compliance relating to private use issues. She also drafts primary financing documents, resolutions, certificates and opinions.

In the general tax area, Ms. Hodge counsels on a broad range of federal and state tax matters, and handles transactional matters including corporate reorganizations, acquisitions and asset sales and purchases, cross-border transactions, and equipment purchase and leasing transactions. She is also involved in tax planning, tax advice, and tax dispute resolution work for state and local tax clients, and has handled state income tax, sales and use tax, corporate franchise tax, real property transfer tax, utility tax and a number of other miscellaneous taxes, both in planning and in dispute resolution.

Ms. Hodge has served as a state and local tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and as a transaction tax manager at Ernst & Young, LLP. She also practiced tax law at two national law firms in Washington, D.C.