Jamie Lewis Keith, J.D.
Board Member
Jamie Lewis Keith is the Distinguished Senior Law and Policy Fellow at Education Counsel LLC, and was
formerly a Partner. Ms. Keith’s 40-year legal career as a policy and legal leader includes a long-term focus
on higher education and academic research and associated issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, academic
freedom and free expression, research policy, compliance systems, and governance. Her practice includes
a significant focus on these issues within the context of science, technology, engineering, mathematics
and medical fields (STEMM). Previously, Ms. Keith was Vice President, General Counsel and University
Secretary for the President and Board of Trustees at University of Florida and Senior Counsel (first primary
inside counsel) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was also responsible for enterprise
risk management and other functions. Earlier, she was in private practice at a large international firm
based in Boston and executive public service in Massachusetts government.
Ms. Keith graduated from Cornell University, College of Arts & Sciences, with distinction in all subjects,
and Boston University School of Law, magna cum laude, and was an outside article editor on the Boston
University Law Review. She served as Law Clerk to the late Honorable Bailey Aldrich on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit and is admitted to the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Florida Bars
(on inactive status in Florida).