Audrey J. Anderson, Interim General Counsel

Audrey Anderson is serving Dartmouth as Interim General Counsel while Dartmouth conducts a search for its next General Counsel.  Audrey is on assignment from Bass, Berry & Sims, a Tennessee-based law-firm where she chairs the Higher Education Practice Group.  Drawing on her over 30 years of experience gained as outside litigation counsel, government counsel, and as the general counsel for a major research university, Audrey brings judgment, creativity and practicality to solving her client’s problems across a range of issues arising from the activities of students, faculty and others in learning, living, teaching, researching and working on a college campus. Whether an issue arises under the First Amendment or Title IX, occurs in the lab, the board room or the athletics department, involves counseling, negotiation, or litigation, Audrey helps her clients find practical ways forward.

Prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Audrey served as Vice Chancellor, General Counsel and University Secretary for Vanderbilt University. In this role, she was responsible for all legal advice provided to the university, including its medical center. Audrey also served in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) beginning in 2009, and was Deputy General Counsel from September 2011 until she left the department in March 2013. Prior to her term at DHS, Audrey was a partner in the education and litigation practice groups at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells). Audrey began her career serving as a law clerk for the Honorable Harold H. Greene of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and for then Chief Justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist.

Audrey has served as an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt University Law School and at the American University Washington College of Law teaching higher education law, appellate advocacy and a seminar on the Supreme Court.