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Senior Fellow
Areas of Interest: Race, Civil Rights, Family Law, Constitutional Law
Biography
Robin A. Lenhardt is a founding member and Senior Fellow of
the Jamestown Project. Ms. Lenhardt is
an Associate Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law, where
she specializes in matters pertaining to race, civil rights, family law, and
constitutional law. Prior to accepting her position at Fordham, Professor
Lenhardt served as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, a fellow
and adjunct professor at the Georgetown
University Law
Center, and an adjunct
professor at the Howard University School of Law.
Before entering legal academia, Professor Lenhardt held a
number of positions in the private and nonprofit sectors. A former law clerk to
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Judge Hugh Bownes of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Professor Lenhardt was of Counsel in the
Washington, D.C., office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was a
member of the litigation team that defended the University of Michigan in the
Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger affirmative action lawsuits.
Professor Lenhardt also received a Skadden Foundation Fellowship to work as a
staff attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and has been
employed as an attorney advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of
Legal Counsel. Professor Lenhardt is a member of the board of directors for the
National Partnership for Women and Families and has served on the Brown
University Board of Trustees since 2000. She has chaired the Brown University
Corporation’s Campus Life Committee since 2003. (Brooklyn,
NY; B.A., Brown University; J.D. & M.P.A., Harvard University;
L.L.M., Georgetown University)
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