Tania Tetlow,
Tania is the 17th president of Loyola University New Orleans, the first lay person and first woman to lead the University. During her first three years, Loyola has experienced unprecedented enrollment success, grown new academic programs, particularly in health care, weathered many hurricanes and one global pandemic.
Tania came to Loyola from Tulane University, where she served as senior vice president and chief of staff. She held oversight of government, community, and board relations; she led special policy efforts on issues including campus safety, race and diversity, and campus sexual misconduct reforms.
Before joining administration, Tetlow served as the Felder-Fayard Professor of Law and directed Tulane’s Domestic Violence Law Clinic. She advised governments and law clinics in Egypt, Rwanda, and Iran on domestic violence policy and was chosen to participate in the U.S. delegation to the Secretary of State’s People-to-People Exchange in Beijing. Her research helped to usher in new anti-discrimination policies in the Department of Justice’s constitutional regulation of police departments.
Before her academic career, she was an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2000-2005), an associate at Phelps Dunbar (1996-2000), and served as a law clerk to Judge James Dennis, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Tania is an alumna of Tulane University (1992) and Harvard Law School, J.D. magna cum laude (1995). She grew up in New Orleans and resides near the Loyola campus with her husband, Gordon. She has a daughter, Lucy, and a stepson, Noah. Tania is the niece of the prominent Jesuit spiritual writer, Joseph Tetlow, S.J.