About Tiffany Wright

Tiffany R. Wright serves as senior vice president and general counsel, advising university leadership and the university’s board of trustees on institutional decisions and providing strategic guidance on governance, research compliance, faculty affairs, and the university’s partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine. In her role, she also oversees the university’s compliance function as well as the public safety unit and police department.

Wright joined the Office of the General Counsel in 2023 as deputy general counsel and has played a critical role as the university navigated a range of issues and challenges, including its response to the 2023 Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in admissions, litigation on antitrust and Title IX challenges, and complex labor, human resources, and research-related matters.

Before joining Johns Hopkins, Wright served as associate counsel to the president in the Office of the White House Counsel. In that position, she provided strategic and legal advice to the president, vice president, and senior White House advisors on a wide array of legal issues, including Title IX, gender and LGBTQ+ equity, reproductive rights, clemency, and religious liberty.

Prior to her White House service, Wright directed the Civil Rights Clinic at the Howard University School of Law, and practiced in the Supreme Court and Appellate practices at two international law firms. She served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge David S. Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Royce C. Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Wright earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. Wright’s life and work have been profiled by the Washington Post, C-SPAN, USA Today, Reuters, and national podcasts.